On my way to work while waiting at a red light around roughly the year 2000, I saw a bumper sticker on the car in front of me that read “God Bless the Freaks” along with a radio station frequency. Intrigued but not thinking it was from the area, I tuned the radio to that station.
The station, it turned out, was for an Effect Radio Network syndicate out of a bordering state. The first song I heard was a cover of EMF’s “Unbelievable” by Thousand Foot Krutch. I enlisted in the TFK Army that very moment and have been blessed by every album they’ve since produced.
There are many TFK songs I include on my personal #Praylist because there are so many to choose from. My inability to choose the right one to go first is what has kept me from blogging one until now. I’ve prayed, listened to all my favorite TFK songs and considered it before settling on “All I Need to Know” because of the place it takes me. In a lot of ways, I consider it as much a warship song as any I have ever heard.
The lyrics of the song remind me of Ecclesiastes because it considers the seeming futility of our worldly toils to show that worldly gain without God is in vain. That God is with us… and that’s all we need to know.
Like that wisdom book, It begins with a thought-provoking statement about wisdom and the folly of pursuing a route purely of academic or trivial knowledge. Such knowledge will never measure up to a sincere relationship with and trust in God. Additionally, being Christian is more than merely “looking the part.”
You could read a million pages, know the words and all the phrases.
You could try to turn a lie into the truth.
You can live to be a hundred, memorizin’ every number.
You could even put a man on the moon.
And the science of the heart is sometimes lost on me.
But I’m following this feeling!
Everything is in God’s hands. We know that to be factual. We know it to be indisputable, and yet, we still resist the understanding that God s in full control. We get emotional about the things in life that are beyond our ability to dictate or direct.
I don’t know why, it’s so hard to swallow our pride!
And I don’t know how many wrongs make a right.
I don’t know the reason.
Sometimes it just feels so good to cry!
Still, with all the knowledge and awareness of God’s work in our lives, born of our human nature is the fact that we still sometimes feel lost, abandoned, alone. We get mixed up, confused, frustrated and overwhelmed. And all it takes is a gentle (though it can sometimes be world shattering) reassurance to set the everything right again.
There’s a moment in the morning, when I feel the most alone
But then I hear your voice, whispering my name.
It’s like a wave of understanding and I never could have planned it
Where the questions, and doubts all fade away.
Despite the turmoil, there is one fact about God and His love for us that brings unfailing resolve: “But you’re here with me. And that’s all I need to know!”
Simple as that.
Are you a TFK listener?
What song or songs would you include on your #Praylist and why? Comment here or tweet it with the hash tag #Praylist to let the world know.