OK, so we finally made it, our final night with Disney songs brought to light and what a great countdown it has been. There were some surprises both in what songs made it and what songs didn't make the cut. We have learned lots of great lessons, things that I am sure you were not expecting to learn from the likes of Sebastian the crab and Baloo the Bear.

But are you ready to see what is #1?  I have got to tell you, this is one of my favorite Disney songs, and it is one that I knew would be on the countdown.  It came in first with 14 votes, 9 votes more than Hakuna Matata. Are you tired of me stalling yet? Cause I do have a few more techniques to keep you in suspense... Did you hear the one about ... Ok ok without any further chicanery, here is song #1, the last song in our countdown from worst to best, the song that you chose, the song that... ah play the movie.

A whole new world, wow what a great song. Do you all feel fulfilled now that you know the top song? Well just wait until you find out the light that can be brought out of this song.

In the movie the song is about doing something that you have never done before about living your life in a new and wonderful way. And I want to draw straight from that for our lesson tonight because that is exactly what God is offering us in Christianity. He is offering us this whole new world that we can live in. In the book of 2 Corinthians Paul tells us this:

^5:17 This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!

God gives us a new world by making us a new person, by giving us a different perspective on life. There is an old saying that says something about when people fall in love they see the world through rose colored glasses. This is the idea that everything looks better to you and rosier, happier more lovely when you are in love because you have decided to see the world that way. This is kind of the same way God works in this instance but instead of giving you glasses that you can take off on a whim He makes you able to change your mind. That is really the definition of repentance

"A change in mind that leads to a change in action."

Last time we talked about a change in mind that could lead us out of worry and into joy, but this change, that God wants to take place in us, is so much deeper than that. He doesn't want us to just be worry free he wants us to have the "peace that surpasses all understanding." He wants us to know that He is there to take care of us no matter what crazy circumstance comes our way. What God really wants is for us to see the world through His eyes... To see other people as a chance to show love and to share Jesus not as black or white or fat or skinny not as smelly or awesome but as a person that needs to know the love of God and that we might be the only person that will ever be able to show it too them.

I was very glad that this ended up being our #1 song because you really have to put into play all of the previous lessons to truly live in this new world. You have to know that peer pressure is something that it is ok to run away from and that you have been given the strength to say no, you have to believe that God wants to take care of you and bring to you the good things of life. You have to be willing to accept with joy whatever situations that you find yourself in, and you have to be willing to take everything to God and focus on Him instead of worrying yourself to death.

The crazy thing is that I didn't plan it this way, I didn't choose the songs I didn't put them in order... you guys did and God has used that to teach us a great lesson. It is my prayer now that whenever you hear these songs that you will remember these silly little lessons, but I also pray that you will starting looking for the light in every part of your life.