“Ways of God” by Abbie Gamboa

As I have shared before, I love the music of Abbie Gamboa, singer/songwriter, who has worked extensively with UPPERROOM in the past, and creates some amazing songs mostly centered around her relationship with God. A lot of her songs seem like they are directly from her quiet time with the Lord and what He has been speaking to her and what He is helping her through. I love it.

Her perspective and what God is teaching her seems to speak directly to me too. As I was driving into work today, part of the bridge in her song, “Ways of God” one of my favorite songs on her new album Have You Ever Looked Around and Realized Everything You Ever Wanted is Right in Front of Your Eyes, stood out to me:

I don’t need to understand
I’m held within Your hand

– WAYS OF GOD, Abbie Gamboa

This is something that I am still working on. It is hard for me to really be at ease when I feel like I don’t understand something or if something feels uncertain in my life. Like most people, I like to know what’s happening and why it is happening. I would say most of the time we don’t get the “why” when things seem to be veering off track from what we expected. When our expectations aren’t met and life doesn’t go to plan so to speak, we want answers. We want a plan to right the wrongs we see in our lives. Unfortunately, in my experience, it rarely goes that way. More often than not, we need to trust God. We need to let go. We need go with the flow as He leads us into the unknown. Now, I am not advocating giving up responsibility for things or a fatalistic approach, but I am saying that we need to relinquish the throne of our lives to the One who made us.

There is a reason we call Him, Lord. His rightful place in our lives is on the throne. Lordship is a daily and ongoing relinquishing of the throne of our lives for the Lord to lead us and to guide us. Like a child, we say, “Yes daddy” as He leads us along the path. Sometimes he leads us on the heights over mountains and sometimes he leads us through the valley of the shadow of death.

The most important thing you can give Him is your trust. That is what He is after. He wants to teach you to trust Him and to grow your faith that in every circumstance you can trust Him. He holds you in His hand and He is never letting go.

Here are the full lyrics for the song.

“Ways of God” lyrics by Abbie Gamboa, Gabriel Gamboa, Nate Diaz, Joshua Ellis Randle –

Time keeps slipping
Clock keeps ticking
For no reason
Overthinking

Chapter might be closing
But I know that you’re still writing
I’m convinced about your timing
And I’m finding you
speaking all your subtleties
Hidden in all my normalcy
I look for you in everything
And it’s still a mystery

The wings of a butterfly
The look in my daughter’s eye

Oo the ways of God are wild
Oo the ways of God are not like mine
And I love it that way
I’m gonna be I’m gonna be I’m gonna be okay

Days feel like years
Years feel like days
Will I ever notice when things start to change
The silver in my hair is like an answered prayer
If I tilt my head just right I’ll see it through your eyes

Oo the ways of God are wild
Oo the ways of God are not like mine
And I love it that way
I’m gonna be I’m gonna be I’m gonna be okay

I don’t need to understand
I’m held within your hand
That’s all I need to know
I don’t need to understand
I’m held within your hand
That’s all I need to know
All I need to know

As I sing I’m getting stronger
As I walk I’m standing taller
If I go a little longer will I turn out like my father
The crazy wild thing
I’m a servant but a king
The very last of these are the first to be seen
He wouldn’t ever give me
A stone when I am asking
For food to feed my belly
He always sustained me
He’s the very best dad that I’ve ever had
And for all that he’s done he’s only just begun

Oo the ways of God are wild
Oo the ways of God are not like mine
And I love it that way
I’m gonna be I’m gonna be I’m gonna be okay