It seems to me this is a song wholly about grace. The question is not, "why do bad things happen to good people?", but rather, "Why do good things happen to bad people?"
We are a fallen people living in a fallen world who care nothing for the things of God. If it were up to us we would be utterly depraved. It is only through grace that anything good happens at all. The bible tell us that ALL good things are a gift from God.
We deserve nothing. The fact that anything good at all ever happens to us is a sheer demonstration of God's amazing grace! Therefore it's the wrong posture to be mad at God for not stopping the bad things that happen to us. Instead we need to be grateful and thankful and fall down on our faces in worship that He chooses to give us good things.
Therefore, the way I interpret this song is thus: it's an illustration of this father's backward thinking. He's frustrated with Jesus for supposedly looking the other way when a bad thing happens and not helping him. In reality, Jesus is looking the other way when he gives us any good thing at all. Anything bad that happens is just a return to the status quo.
It's remarkable how much Jesus looks the other way and gives us so many good things that is when something bad happens that we take notice. That's how blessed we are! Jesus showers us in grace and love so much that when that shower temporarily abates, we cry out because suddenly the bad things that are being covered up by Jesus' grace become apparent.
How amazing and abundant is grace that we forget we are a depraved people living in a fallen, broken, ugly cold world.
It seems to me this is a song wholly about grace. The question is not, "why do bad things happen to good people?", but rather, "Why do good things happen to bad people?"
We are a fallen people living in a fallen world who care nothing for the things of God. If it were up to us we would be utterly depraved. It is only through grace that anything good happens at all. The bible tell us that ALL good things are a gift from God.
We deserve nothing. The fact that anything good at all ever happens to us is a sheer demonstration of God's amazing grace! Therefore it's the wrong posture to be mad at God for not stopping the bad things that happen to us. Instead we need to be grateful and thankful and fall down on our faces in worship that He chooses to give us good things.
Therefore, the way I interpret this song is thus: it's an illustration of this father's backward thinking. He's frustrated with Jesus for supposedly looking the other way when a bad thing happens and not helping him. In reality, Jesus is looking the other way when he gives us any good thing at all. Anything bad that happens is just a return to the status quo.
It's remarkable how much Jesus looks the other way and gives us so many good things that is when something bad happens that we take notice. That's how blessed we are! Jesus showers us in grace and love so much that when that shower temporarily abates, we cry out because suddenly the bad things that are being covered up by Jesus' grace become apparent.
How amazing and abundant is grace that we forget we are a depraved people living in a fallen, broken, ugly cold world.