What Sinach’s “Way Maker” Can Teach You About Faith in God
What a song can teach you about patience in your faith walk.
How Sinach's "Way Maker" got to be the No.1 trending gospel song is something I still cannot fully comprehend. I mean, it wasn't a trending song in Nigeria (yea it was when it came out, but we were all tired of singing it by now). But all of a sudden boom!
In a way, it shows how God works - when you are down, out and exhausted, when you feel like you have nothing else to give, He shows up the way only He can. I mean that is what it means to be a Way Maker, isn't it?
There are times we think we know what to do. We have so many plans and we're ready to act. And when we're done, God will say, "okay, my turn." I love his sense of humour (I've always seen him as the greatest comedian).
Personally, I've learnt a huge life lesson from this:
See, I have a very analytical mind. I like to think out how things work. Like when you say this will be? I want to know why and how. Maybe not the whole process, but at least some parts of it - the important parts.
This is probably why I quarrel so much with God. When he says "son, relax." my response is almost synonymous with Jerry Maguire's - "show
me the money!" I find it hard to just stay (I wonder how Abraham was able to cope all those years, waiting for Isaac to manifest) - it is not because I doubt, but because I'm inquisitive, it is just the way my mind works.
It took me a while before I learnt that being still and doing nothing are two very different concepts. It takes a lot of will power to be still still in a situation when the natural response is to move. This is what it means for “the Just to live by faith.”
It takes faith to stay, when natural sense says "go," and to go when all other factors are pointing otherwise.
For people who are like me, it is important to find that balance; to know when to just suspend your thinking and logical assumptions and just let
God be God.
Would Sinach in her wildest imagination, have thought Way Maker would gather this much traction that it is now? I doubt. Like a senior friend of mine will always say, "your brain is too small to compute how God works."
The best thing to do is to sit back and let him do what he knows how to do best - which is to make ways!
