Whenever I hear the song "You Found Me" by the band The Fray, I feel like it moves something inside of me. But not in the same way that it does to many other people. I have so many friends who can really relate to what the lead singer of The Fray, Isaac Slade, wrote in that song because they also feel the same way. It is the cry of a generation feeling lost and abandoned by a distant, uncaring God. I wanted to show you the lyrics so you can see how broken this guy really is. Then, after, I feel like God has put on my heart an answer to the question "Where were You?", posed in the song. It will be written as a letter to Isaac Slade, the lead singer of The Fray.
You Found Me
(Verse 1)
I found God on the corner of first and amistad,
Where the west was all but won
All alone, smoking his last cigarette
I said where you've been he said ask anything
Where were you
When everything was falling apart
When all my days were spent by the telephone
Never ring and all I needed was a call
Never came to the corner of first and amistad
(Chorus)
Lost and insecure
You found me you found me
Lying on the floor
Surround me surround me
Why'd you have to wait
Where were you where were you
Just a little late
You found me you found me
(Verse 2)
But in the end everyone ends up alone
Losing her the only one whose ever known
Who I am who I'm not who I wanna be
My way to know how lost you will be next to me
(Chorus)
Lost and insecure
You found me you found me
Lying on the floor
Surround me surround me
Why'd you have to wait
Where were you where were you
Just a little late
You found me you found me
(Verse 3)
Early morning city breaks
I've been calling
For years and years and years and years
And you've never left me messages
Never send me no letters
You've got some kind of nerve
Taking all I want
Lost and insecure
You've found me you've found me
Lying on the floor
Where were you where were you
(Chorus)
Lost and insecure
You found me you found me
Lying on the floor
Surround me surround me
Why'd you have to wait
Where were you where were you
Just a little late
You found me you found me
Why'd you have to wait
To find me to find me?
(A Letter to Isaac Slader)
Dear Isaac,
You need to know, I have never left you. I don't know who you found on the corner of First and Amistad, but it wasn't me. Didn't you know that I have been beside you your entire life? My heart breaks for the things you go through. I long to take your burden, but You Won't Give Me The Load! You have been fighting alone for so long and I have just been waiting for you to ask for my help.
You began to run away from me at a young age and I tried to call you back but you've gotten very good at ignoring me. You ran yourself all the way to your downfall. You listened to the king of lies and trusted all the wrong people. They beat you and left you lying on the floor, lost and insecure. You wanted to know where I was. But what you didn't know was that I took the beating with you! Then I held you in my arms to comfort you but you pushed me away again.
I wanted to be your everything! Your comforter, you best friend, Your Father, but you wouldn't let me. Every day I came asking for your companionship but every day you slammed the door in my face and broke my heart. You went back to the same things and people that hurt you, when you didn't have to. My son died for you so you wouldn't have to live in sin.
Lastly, you need to know that I am still waiting. As you get up in the morning and go to meet with your so called "friends", I will be there. I will always be there. You will always have a choice. "I have plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart." (Jer. 29:11) That is my promise. I'm not giving up on you. And I love you...If you only knew the way I love you. I won't stop until you do.
Fighting For You Every Day,
_God
