Have Your Way

Today I have stumbled across a new song calld "Have You Way" by Britt Nicole.  Here are the lyrics: 

Feels like I've been here forever,
Why can't you just intervene,
Do you see the tears keep falling?
And I'm falling apart at the seams,

But you never said the road would be easy,
But you said that you would never leave.
And you never promised that this life wasn't hard,
But you promised you'd take care of me.

So I'll stop searching for the answers,
I'll stop praying for an escape,
I'll trust you God with where I am,
And believe you will have your way,
Just have your way, Just have your way,

When my friends and my family have left me
I feel so ashamed and so cold,
Remind you take broken things and turn them into beautiful

So I'll stop searching for the answers,
I'll stop praying for an escape,
I'll trust you God with where I am,
And believe you will have your way,
Just have your way, Just have your way,

Even if my dreams have died,
Even if I don't survive,
I'll still worship you with all my life,
My life, yeah,
And I'll stop searching for the answers,
I'll stop praying for an escape,
And I'll trust you God with where I am,
And believe you will have your way,
Just have your way, Just have your way, yeah



The first stanza of this song,

Feels like I've been here forever,
Why can't you just intervene,
Do you see the tears keep falling?
And I'm falling apart at the seams,

Don't many of us feel this way?  That life is throwing only rocks at us, no flowers. We ask, why God?  Even Jesus asked this, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" This world can be ugly, and hurtful. We wonder, where is He?


Second stanza:


But you never said the road would be easy,
But you said that you would never leave.
And you never promised that this life wasn't hard,
But you promised you'd take care of me.

Christ went through things here on this earth that I can't even bear to imagine. Which is why a majority of the time I do not feel I should give my complaints about life to God.  But at the same time, I can't help it.  Life as I see, doesn't get any easier.  From this point on it only becomes harder. The wonderfulness out of this is that I know that God won't leave me, and that He will always take care of me.




Chorus:

So I'll stop searching for the answers,
I'll stop praying for an escape,
I'll trust you God with where I am,
And believe you will have your way,
Just have your way, Just have your way,

Not knowing what's going to happen tomorrow and the rest of life keeps my curiosity at it's highest.  I can be one of those people who think it's all about me, that I always want things to go my way.  As I grow up I continue to be put in my place.  I know that God will have His way, and this comforts me. He know's what's best, and I've learned that I most certainly do not.  How great is the Lord!



Third stanza:

When my friends and my family have left me
I feel so ashamed and so cold,
Remind you take broken things and turn them into beautiful

All the time I hear stories about kids and adults who's family doesn't care about them, and their friends, they aren't true friends.  This breaks my heart.  These people feel like they mean nothing, they don't matter, and feel worthless.  The last line of this is beautiful. God takes people with these situations and turns it around. How magnificent! He can give us what no one on this world can.  So the person who has no family, no friends, now has God.  The unconditional loving Lord.  He takes the broken pieces in a person, and puts them back together. Wow.



Fourth stanza:

Even if my dreams have died,
Even if I don't survive,
I'll still worship you with all my life,
My life, yeah,

Dreams are crushed everday.  Dissapointments happen everday.  People are let down, misued, and mistreated everday.  But in many situations I see people who look beyond the imperfections and see the love of God.  They worship Him.  Are we holding on to God? No, He is holding onto us. How wonderful He is!  The only one who is capable of giving us our every need, who gives us what this world cannot, is our Father. And He is holding onto us, just like a mama lion will hold onto her cub. Yeah, that's right, we can't escape or fall from that firm grip.  I'm forever grateful for this grip.

The first post ever, on my first blog, ever

The other night I sat down at my desk and wrote down all the names that I heard over the past few days that were asked to be put on our prayer lists. I'm making a project for myself.  Most of the time when someone asks for someone to be put on a prayer list I normally just think about it for a second, and then move on to the next part of my day. Now, every name that is mentioned, and also those that go unmentioned, are put on my list. I know that it won't take long for this single sheet of paper to fill up. I want to do this because I don't think I realize how many people out there are suffering.  How many people, I haven't taken time to think about, write a card to, or say hey, how are you? My list right now stands at about half way down the page. As my list grows longer and longer I hope for me to learn a lesson. To learn how precious this life is. How to think of others more than myself.  The people on this list, I look up to. I think they are twice the people I am, because they take their struggles and look beyond them. They all look to Christ. I don't know how they do it. To wake up every morning and feel this pain within them, or that surrounds them, and still look at the glass half full. People on this Earth are beautiful I believe. Yes, this is a broken world. But when I truly look at many of the people that surround my life, I see pure beauty. We are all God's children, called to love each other as Christ has loved us.