I must admit that this week's selection has me a bit confused. I've come accross this song time and time again. I kept just putting it aside, telling myself "one of these weeks it'll be a great fit". Then I'd hear it again...and put it on the back burner again. I looked up the band's web site - "for when I'm ready to use it". While I was there, I listened to the story behind the song. Wow! Powerful stuff. How am I going to add anything to his heartfelt message?
I went to my favorite lyrics site to find the words, again for when the timing was right. As I read the lines, an idea began to sink into my wee brain... "Always" isn't about Jason Roy's struggle with personal tragedy . He's not asking - Why is this happening to Me? or God, Where are you now? He is witnessing God's Love to other's who were suffering and needed encouragement.
"Friend, I don't know where you are and I don't know where you've been... But if you're crying out for mercy, if there's no hope left at all. If you've given everything you've got and you're still about to fall, Well hold on" .... When I read these words, I started to believe that maybe this song kept finding me for a reason. What if its for some of you who are hurting and need to hear its message? My personal challenges weren't important at all. I didn't need to try to match the song-writer's passion.
The SOTW - "Always" by Building 429 - didn't have to be about me... Its about any of us who are facing tragic, unfair, unsettling, faith-shaking situations. Its about believing and remembering that, in Jason's words, God is before us, he will be long after us and he is with us every step of the way - always.
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