Run To The Father

Hello friends! So, lately before I put fingers to keyboard, I listen to a worship song, or several, and praise God and pray. Today's song was Run To The Father By Cody Carnes. While listening to this and praising and praying, God was speaking to me through it and I want to share what He was telling me with you. There is a part of the song that goes like this:

"I don't understand, I can't comprehend. All I know is I need you."

I felt God saying, "Ashley, you are not always going to understand or comprehend the why and how, that is where trust in your God comes in." If the Bible says you can trust God and if it says that He does good for those who love Him, shouldn't that be enough? Shouldn't the knowing that we need Him be enough?

What is with all the questioning God, and why is it necessary? "Well, if God is all powerful, why does He let this or that happen? Why doesn't He do this, that, and the third?" All questions I've heard and said with my own mouth, as much as I hate to admit it. Where was my trust in God? Wait, Trust... isn't that just another definition of faith, anyway? If faith is assurance in things not seen, then isn't the assurance in things we cannot understand also faith and trust?

I cannot help but do a comparison of God's mind to our mind. He knows the name of everyone who has ever existed and who will ever exist. He knows the number of hairs on their head, yet I've been at my new church for like two months and I still don't remember everyone's names. I'd say some of you can relate about the difficulty of remembering names.

There is no way we could gain that knowledge, the names of everyone who has ever existed, there isn't enough records in the books. Yet God has it. His understanding far outweighs our own, so why do we question Him like the 'bad' cop questions the criminal in films? Why do we interrogate Him? Where's the trust? Where is the faith that things are the way they are for a reason? After all, do we have foresight? NO, but guess who does.

He foresees the end of time. So, how is it that we put ourselves on the other side of the interrogation table? How is it that we, the creation, don't trust our Creator? Does the clay look upon the Potter and say, "No, do things this way."

That song, Run To The Father, it makes me want to drop everything I know and run to the Father. I want to run to Him no matter what. Whether it be in rejoicing or in struggling. When I fall, I want to be like the child who, when they fall and scrap their knee, runs directly to their father.

God desires that - for us to run to Him no matter what. He wants us to have a child like Spirit. That reminds me of another song: "Live with the wonder of a child, pray with your arms thrown open wide, love with a love that has no end." Until I See You Again By Mark Schultz.

So, I'll run to the Father. I hear the lyrics in my mind: "I run to the Father. I fall into grace. I'm done with the hiding. No reason to wait. My heart needs a surgeon. My soul needs a friend. So, I'll run to the Father again and again and again." Cody Carnes Song - Run To The Father. So, run into His arms, fall into His grace, and trust Him completely because He will catch you.