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Ask Him
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Nov 7, 2026 updated
Ask Him - Single album
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Song Meaning
Olivia Lane starts "Ask Him" with the hardest question a believer meets: "If there's a good God / Then why do bad things happen?" She does not hurry past it. The verse admits that if the reason is invisible, belief in a day when the chaos "will make some sense" is difficult to hold.
The chorus is a reassurance from someone who has been there: "It's okay if you have questions / It's only human if you do." Some answers, she sings, "will have to wait till Heaven," and the rest only faith can carry. The invitation is plain: "He knows you're askin' / So why not ask Him?" A second verse supplies her own testimony, that suffering has not silenced the singing, because "Jesus met me in that place."
The bridge gathers the answer into a person: "The One who tasted death to free us / The only God who understands us." That claim rests on Hebrews 4:15, while the promise of answers in Heaven echoes Isaiah 25:8, where God wipes away tears. Bringing questions to God aligns with Philippians 4:6.
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If there's a good God
Then why do bad things happen?
Is there a reason for going through this pain?
If I don't see it
Then how can I believe
That all of this chaos will make some sense one day?
If you wish you knew
Friend, I've been there too
It's okay if you have questions
It's only human if you do
Some things will have to wait till Heaven
And the rest only faith can walk you through
He knows you're askin'
So why not ask Him?
If I have suffered
Then why am I still singing
Oh hallelujah, blessed be the Name?
Cause in those hard times
When there was no understanding
I know that Jesus met me in that place
I can't comprehend it, His amazing grace
It's okay if you have questions
It's only human if you do
Some things will have to wait till Heaven
And the rest only faith can walk you through
He knows you're askin'
So why not ask Him?
All my answers are in Jesus
The One who tasted death to free us
The only God who understands us
All my answers are in Him
All my answers are in Jesus
The One who tasted death to free us
The only God who understands us
All my answers are in Him
It's okay if you have questions
It's only human if you do
Some things will have to wait till Heaven
And the rest only faith can walk you through
He knows you're askin'
God knows you're askin'
He knows you're askin'
So why not ask Him?