You Found Me

This song (You Found Me - The Fray) is a very meaningful song to me. The first time i heard it, i received mixed messages because i didnt really understand it... But when i discovered more of the meanings behind it and when i interpreted it in my way, it shows me so much... I think a lot of us believe that this world is our own... that we have a right to everything... and sometimes, we feel like God has deserted us at times we needed Him most. When i listened to this song, it made me understand what God actually does for us.

It's like the footprints in the sand parable. God doesn't ever desert us, but he's actually carrying us through every tough situation. We often think, "hey, where'd you go when i needed you? those were my times of trial, but i only see one set of footprints." Little do we know that those were Gods feet when our own two couldn't carry the burdens.

Where were you
When everything was falling apart?
All my days
Were spent by the telephone
It never rang
And all I needed was a call
It never came
To the corner of First and Amistad

^ in this part of the song, i believe that it portrays our common thinking, that God was never there, and that he wasn't reaching out his had for us. In truth, he was carrying us in the palms of his hands.

In the 2nd verse, it says:

In the end
Everyone ends up alone
Losing her
The only one who's ever known
Who I am
Who I'm not, who I wanna be
No way to know
How long she will be next to me

And then the chorus says:

Lost and insecure
You found me, you found me
Lyin' on the floor
Surrounded, surrounded
Why'd you have to wait?
Where were you? Where were you?
Just a little late
You found me, you found me

"Losing her, the only one who's ever known..." When we lose the comforts of life, or the securities in this world, we can't help but think that there's nothing left for us... we have built so much on the temporary things in life. But at the last moment, guess what... God sweeps us up into his arms and carries us... He finds us in the midst of our times of struggle...
But what do we think? we often think "why couldn't you have saved me earlier, so i wouldn't have had to go through these struggles?" But you know what? God knew where we were from the very start...

Early morning
The city breaks
I've been callin'
For years and years and years and years
And you never left me no messages
Ya never send me no letters
You got some kinda nerve
Taking all my world

This song seems to be telling us that "God didnt find us in time..." What i believe that it's actually telling us is that we need to realize that it's NOT God that didnt find us... it's us who need to find God...

mehh...sorry, this is sort of a confusing post... well, hopefully it'll just help you realize how much God has given us, and that WE need to find God...because...

You found me... You found me......