Justin Bieber Says ‘It’s Time to Grow Up’ In Message About ‘Letting Go and Remembering’

Justin Bieber had an uplifting message in an Instagram Story he posted on Thursday (Feb. 20) about growing up and taking responsibility. The 30-year-old singer shared the inspirational note in a post cued to John Mayer’s acoustic cover of Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin.’”

“It’s time to grow up. Changing is about letting go!,” read the post that appeared to be a stream-of-consciousness-like musing on maturity and accountability from the singer who shares a six-month-old son, Jack Blues Bieber, with wife model Hailey Bieber. “Not trying harder! Are you tired of trying to follow all of the rules in hopes to get the results you crave? Ive found love to be more powerful than rules. I tried to follow the rules. Im not good at it,” Bieber said.

He continued the all caps, prayerful, poetry-like statement, writing, “But u dont need to follow rules to enter into a life of love. U just receive so enter love living! God always grants us love! Its one of his promises! Upon receiving Gods love! U start to change and start following love. You dont work to mature! You let go to mature! Today im letting go and remembering the weight isnt on me to change. The weight is on God. So I give all my insecurities and my fears to him this morning. Because I know he gladly takes it. Asking Jesus to genuinely help me with simply the next step today.”

At press time it was not clear what inspired the thoughtful meditation from the singer who has long touted himself as a “Jesus guy” and who, in 2019, stood up at a church service to perform a gospel song with the crowd. “Sang at church last night. God is pulling me through a hard season,” he wrote at the time. “Having trust in Jesus at your worst times is the absolute hardest. But he is faithful to complete what he started.”

Bieber gave Beliebers more hope last month that he is on his way back into our ears when he posted images of himself on the mic in a studio, just days after he shared a 24-second snippet of what sounded like the rough demo for a new song. Back in October, Bieber posted photos from what also looked to be a studio session — with the singer working both a keyboard and the mic — just a few weeks after fellow artist Mk.gee mentioned to the New York Times that he’d been in the studio with him. “He’s searching. Anything that comes out of his mouth: That’s pop music. You can really do pretty wild stuff behind that, just because it represents something,” Mk.gee said at the time.

Fans are eagerly awaiting new music from Bieber, who hasn’t released an album since 2021’s Justice.