A friend shared this song with me a couple weeks ago. At the time I don't think I really connected with it. But, the last week has brought me back to this song, and mix that with a book I've been reading and it's made me think a lot about how God is with us in our desert times.
In Genesis, God tells Adam he is free to eat from any tree, except one. That if he eats it he will die. Then, when the serpent approaches Eve, he twists it... "Did God really say you couldn't eat from any tree" - a lie... A twist of the truth, and a statement in the negative to rile us up. "No... It's only one tree... And if we eat it or even touch it we will die" - Eve has missed the point and already fallen into Satan's trap - because she has changed the command... If you touch it... And she had lost touch with the God who is with her always...
When we change God's commands we have set ourselves up for failure. Because when we touch it and live... We think God surely has lied to us. And what follows is an inevitable failure on our part.
"What if all my life I wrestle with my worry and anxiety? What if the thorn deep in my side is only there to help me see That though I never ask for it, the desert is God's gift to me?"
Sometimes God puts those thorns there to help us see our need. To help us reconnect with Him in a way we can't without the desert. Because it makes us thirsty to go back and hear the truth. To reconnect with the God who is with us and will never forsake us.
What if I forget the lyrics to the chorus of the song I wrote?
What if my daughter gets a fever while I'm out here on the road?
What if this kind of life I lead is damaging in ways I do not know?
What if I can never find a place where I can truly be myself?
What if I never chase my dreams and leave them sitting on the shelf?
What if I already missed my prime and get passed by for someone else?
What if the world doesn't end when the fears come true?
What if we have what we need to make it through?
There is manna from heaven and mercies new
What if God is still here in this desert too?
Every morning I am full of hope like Lazarus up from the grave
But by the time I fall in bed I'm burdened by a heavy weight
From picking up what isn't mine 'til I feel like there's no escape
What if I believed that God would meet me in my trouble and my pain
And all the truth that's in my head would move down to my heart and then
I shall not want for anything and finally be at peace again
What if the world doesn't end when the fears come true?
What if we have what we need to make it through?
There is manna from heaven and mercies new
What if God is still here in this desert too?
What if all my life I wrestle with my worry and anxiety?
What if the thorn deep in my side is only there to help me see
That though I never ask for it, the desert is God's gift to me?
What if the world doesn't end when the fears come true?
What if we have what we need to make it through?
There is manna from heaven and mercies new
What if God is still here in this desert?
God is still here in this desert too
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