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GOD DID! | Sons Of Sunday

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The ink on the old hymn books in my study is fading, the pages soft as worn linen from decades of thumbing through them on Sunday mornings. I listen to Sons of Sunday singing "GOD DID!" and I find myself wondering if this is a shout meant for the sanctuary walls or something that sticks when the doctor calls or the bank account goes dry.

There is a line in there that caught me: “If you made it through and it makes no sense, that’s how you know it was Him.”

I’ve spent forty years trying to make sense of things—why the cancer came, why the business folded, why the children grew distant. Most of the time, I try to map out the logic of God, as if He were a blueprint I could study. But the older I get, the less logic I find in the way grace moves. Like Peter in the book of Acts, finding himself suddenly outside the prison gate (Acts 12:9), he thought he was dreaming. It didn't make sense. It wasn't a tactical maneuver; it was simply a hand reaching into the dark and pulling him into the light. That is the kind of grace that doesn’t leave a trail of breadcrumbs for you to follow back; it just leaves you standing there, blinking, realizing you couldn't have opened that lock yourself.

There is a boldness in the refrain, "GOD DID! GOD DID!" that feels almost reckless to someone who has learned to be cautious with hope. It’s loud. It’s the kind of noise that usually fades when the knees get weak and the house gets quiet. But there is a truth in that simplicity. It reminds me of the Israelites standing on the far side of the Red Sea. They didn't have a plan; they had a God who parted the water. They didn't need a strategy; they needed a Deliverer.

Sometimes, in the dead of the night, when the silence is heavy and my own strength is nothing more than a memory, I don't have the words for a prayer. I don’t have a sermon. I don’t have a checklist of theological defenses. I have nothing but the quiet admission that if I’m still here, if I’m still breathing, if the bitterness hasn't claimed me, it isn't because of anything I did. It is a terrifying, beautiful thing to relinquish credit for your own survival.

I wonder if the boys in Sons of Sunday know that this confession is expensive. To say "God did" means you have to admit you didn't. That’s a hard pill to swallow for a man who has prided himself on his own two hands for most of his life. But sitting here, watching the sun hit the dust motes in the air, I’m finding that the "young man’s noise" is actually the very thing I need. It’s a plain, unadorned shout against the darkness. It doesn't fix the aches in my joints, but it reminds me that the One who raised me from the dead—or at least, the one who keeps me going when I feel like a ghost—is the same One who still holds the keys to the prison. And that is enough to hold onto until the light finally breaks.