By Mallory Mattingly
Christian artist Jeremy Camp trusts God’s plan even as tragedies like Charlie Kirk’s assassination devastate the world.
“So much going on in our world. So much hatred and division,” Camp wrote on Instagram shortly after Kirk’s murder. He accompanied the post with a raw video of him singing his song “Better.”
“Praying for Charlie’s family. My Heart is so broken at what has just happened and has been happening, but not without hope, because my hope is in Jesus alone,” he continued. “I have questions … a lot… but in the end, I trust the One who is in control and loves unconditionally, when I find myself trying to control and not loving as Christ loved. Even if things don’t get ‘better’ this side of heaven, I will continue to trust in the immovable God.”
The lyrics to the song read:
I’ve screamed into the silence
And all I heard was doubt
I’ve prayed to see the sunshine
But the rain kept coming down
I’ve wrestled with the conceptRelated: Jeremy Camp Sings Prayers Over Followers
That Your plans are always good
‘Cause half the time it doesn’t
Go the way I think it should
But You know things I never could, soIf I never understand
Or ever see the promised land
If You don’t answer my questions
On this side of Heaven
I’m gonna trust the way You work
When You don’t rush to heal the hurt
My heart’s still Yours forever
Even if it never gets better
Camp then posted Proverbs 3:5-6: “Trust in the Lord with all of your heart and lean not on your own understanding, but in all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight.”
Camp’s song address all that’s been going on in the world over the last two weeks.
In a video from last May, the singer explained that “Better” stemmed from Isaiah 55:8-9: “‘For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,’ declares the Lord. ‘As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.'”
“I’m not going to always understand the things that God does, but I do know that His ways are higher than my ways, and his thoughts are higher than my thoughts, and that he’s good,” Camp said as he shared his heart behind the song.
Like Camp, we struggle to understand God’s plan in the midst of tragedy, but we can take comfort in knowing that, no matter what, He still reigns and has already won the battle.
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