"If You Want Me To"

"The pathway is broken, and the times are unclear.

And I don't know the reason, why you brought me here.

But just because you love me, the way that you do,

I'm gonna walk through the valley, if you want me to.



'Cause I'm not who I was, when I took my first step.

And I'm clinging to the promise you're not through with me yet

and if all of these trials bring me closer to you,

then I will go through the fire, if you want me to.



It may not be the way I would have chosen,

when you lead me through a world that's not my own.

But you never said it would be easy,

You only said I'd never go alone.



So when the whole world turns against me,

and I'm all by myself,

and I can't hear you answer my cries for help.

I'll remember that suffering your love put you through,

and I will walk through the valley, if you want me to."
-Ginny Owens


I don't know about you, but the message in that song is really hard to live out. A few years ago, I heard someone say that sometimes that hardest thing to do in a difficult situation is to just go through it. Instead of bailing, and running away as fast as you can, to go through it until it's done, and learn what God wants you to learn. I think that in good situations and in bad ones, God allows us to go through the valley because He knows that if we cling to Him, and we don't stray, we'll come out of it stronger than if we had stayed on the mountain top.

Sometimes that is just so hard to do isn't it? When we are in a nasty situation that we are having such difficulty with, it's so hard to just sit and be still and ask "what is it You want me to learn in this?". Our gut reaction is to say "God get me out of here fast!! I'm miserable!" I figure, if I'm going to be going through this, I might as well learn something from it. It's a learning process to change my thought pattern from "rescue me!" to "If you want me to."