[Verse 1]
How could He love me?
How could He know me?
How could one so awesome, ever care so much for me?
How could He love man, enough to redeem man?
How could He sacrifice, His only son to set me free?
[Chorus]
That's just the way the Father is.
He'll be a friend when you're not His.
That's just His way, that's just the way He is.
He's nothing like your other friends.
He'll be with you until the end.
That's just His way, that's just the way He is.
[Verse 2]
Why did He choose me?
And why does He use me?
How could He put, His trust in me, to carry out His will, ohhh.
How could He love me, knowing all He knows about me?
How could He look beyond my faults and find success in me?
[Chorus]
[Hook]
He's great & He's faithful...
He's great & He's faithful.
Morning by morning, a brand new mercy I see, ohhhhhhhh.
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
That's just the way, that's just the Father is. [5x]
[Talking]
I don't always live like I ought to live, but He loves me.
I don't always pray like I ought to pray, but He blesses me anyway.
[Bridge 5x]
That's just the way, the Father, is.
That's Just The Way The Father Is
Song Meaning
Kurt Carr keeps "That's Just The Way The Father Is" built on a single repeated question rather than a settled answer — "how could He love me? How could He know me? How could one so awesome, ever care so much for me?" The song treats being loved as genuinely strange rather than something to take for granted.
"He'll be a friend when you're not His" states the asymmetry plainly — the relationship isn't reciprocal in the way the singer's own faithfulness would require. "Morning by morning, a brand new mercy I see" keeps the claim daily and renewable rather than a one-time rescue already finished.
The spoken bridge drops the song's music entirely to say the quiet part directly — "I don't always live like I ought to live, but He loves me, I don't always pray like I ought to pray, but He blesses me anyway" — naming the singer's own inconsistency as the very thing the title's claim has to hold up against.