Kirk Franklin - Imagine me Lyrics
Lyrics
Imagine me Loving what I see. when the mirrors looks at me cause I Imagine me In a place of no insecurities and I'm finally happy cause Imagine me Letting go of all of the ones who hurt me, cause they never did deserve me Can you imagine me?..
Saying no to thoughts that try to control me Remembering all you who told me Lord Can you imagine me? Over what my mamma said and healed from what my daddy did and I wanna live And not read that page again
Imagine me Being free, trusting you totally, finally I can Imagine me I admit it was hard to see you being in love with someone like me finally I can Imagine me Being strong and not letting people break me down You won't that joy this time around Can you imagine me In a world, where nobody has to live afraid Because of your love fears gone away Can you imagine me? Letting go of the past and glad I have another chance and my heart will dance cause I don't have to read that page again
The song is dedicated to people like me Those that struggle with insecurities, Acceptance and ever self esteem. You never felt good enough, you never felt pretty enough But imagine God whispering in your ear Letting you know that everything that has happened is now gone
GONE it's all gone Every sin is gone Every mistake is gone. Every failure is gone Depression is gone By faith is gone Low self-esteem is gone Hallelujah it's gone God loves you
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Imagine Me
Meaning & Inspiration
I was listening to Kirk Franklin talk about imagining himself free, and it hit me how much of that is just wanting to see ourselves the way God sees us. It’s hard, honestly. I look in the mirror and I see all the baggage, the things my parents did or said, the ways I messed up, and it’s like those old pages are glued shut. I’m stuck reading them over and over. When he sings about being free from that, it brings to mind how Paul talked about forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead. It’s a biblical enough idea—that we’re supposed to be a new creation—but sometimes I wonder if we focus too much on just imagining ourselves better, rather than actually resting in the fact that the work of the cross is already finished.
The song gets to this point where it says every sin and mistake is gone, and that’s the part I keep chewing on. It feels right, like that promise that He throws our sins into the depths of the sea. But is it really that simple? I want to believe that everything—the depression, the insecurity, the shame—is just gone because I have faith, but some days the weight is still sitting right there on my chest. I guess the tension is that we’re supposed to live as if those things are dead, even when they feel very much alive. It’s hard to reconcile the "already" of salvation with the "not yet" of my actual day-to-day life. I keep wondering if I’m missing something by trying to imagine a version of myself that’s finally healed, instead of just trusting that He loves the broken version of me right now. It’s like, am I imagining a new me, or am I finally starting to believe He meant it when He said it was finished?