By Michaela Gordoni
Taya’s song, “The Reminder,” is a powerful message for believers who sometimes forget God is right next to them with open arms.
“What’s so kind is God doesn’t make me go through, you know, the eight…[or] 10 days before He’ll come back to me. What’s so kind is when you turn, He’s there,” Taya explained in an interview with K-Love. “He doesn’t say, ‘You have to do 15 minutes of private worship and you need to sing your heart out to me.’”
“He’s like, ‘I’m here.’ And He’s waiting. And I want people to get that glimpse,” she said of her song, “The Reminder.”
Her hope is that listeners know that God is there waiting for them.
“Jesus did everything so we could come,” she said.
Some of the song’s lyrics are:
This is a reminder
This is for my soul
When you’re in the valley
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You never let me go
I’ve got history to prove it
Future is secure, secure‘Cause I know You’ll
Always be good to me
God spoke to Taya at the start of 2023 when she spent some time out in the wilderness. She felt God telling her to look at eagles flying, and in her devotional later, she read that the eagles soar because of their God-given instinct. Scientists don’t know how eagles find thermal currents to help them soar.
“They’re just being obedient to the instincts that God has placed on the inside of them,” Taya explained.
In the same way, we can be comforted that even when we don’t know what we’re doing, we can still walk with God by opening our hearts to Him.
“I realized I was putting the focus on the wrong thing even though my heart was in the right place,” the worship singer said. “And there was still beautiful moments of surrender…We so often, especially people who have been walking with Jesus for a while, we think we have to tick off everything to make ourselves ready to be in the presence of God because we know He’s holy.”
“You know, they had to go through crazy rigmarole back in the Old Testament…Only select people were then allowed to be in the temple of God where He was dwelling and then only one high priest was allowed to go into, like, the holy of holies and then if He had any secret, He was going to, you know, get knocked down dead…[But] He’s still the same God,” she expressed.
But Jesus’ death changed things.
“When he died on the cross, the veil in the temple that separated the people from the holy presence of God was ripped from the top to the bottom,” the “Oceans” singer said. “I feel like it’s so easily with our doings and thinking how we need to get ourselves ready for God. It’s like we’re sewing it back up, saying there needs to be a distance.”
But Jesus “became the perfect spotless lamb sacrifice, [which] God himself provided to do what we could not, which is our entry into the presence of God. So when the holy heavenly Father that we have that looks at us in his presence, He doesn’t see the stuff that we’ve done wrong because we believe that the blood of Jesus washes us completely clean.”
So when we come to God as we are, “you’ll find a savior who is gentle and lowly and meek waiting for us.”
In another interview, Taya explained that she went through many trials while writing her second album, The Reminder, and its title song, “The Reminder,” is what she learned from all of it.
“I hope people are reminded of what God’s already done for them,” she said. “A verse. A promise. A moment where they knew He saw them.”
“He has spoken the words that will sustain you no matter where The Way goes,” she said of the song in an Instagram post. “He sees you and Jesus is the One faithfully leading each of us through.”
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