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Better For It
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Oct 1, 2026 updated
Riley Clemmons album
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Song Meaning
Riley Clemmons names a real low point without softening it — "that time I hit the bottom and it hurt a little bit" — before reaching the claim James 1:2's own words make about the same kind of experience: "count it all joy... knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance." "I count it all as joy even when I'm in the flame" lifts the verse almost directly.
"I used to think pain was a consequence, but now I kinda think it might be the perfect gift" tracks the same movement Romans 5:3 describes — suffering producing endurance, endurance producing character, character producing hope. "I found You down low in the brokenness" keeps the testimony specific to where the discovery actually happened, not a general statement about faith surviving hardship.
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I wouldn't say I would've chosen it
That time I hit the bottom and it hurt a little bit
Funny how being down can make you look up
But now I'm better for it
All I could see in the moment was
My heart and how it felt ripped open, I'll admit
I found You down low in the brokenness
And now I'm better for it
I count it all as joy even when I'm in the flame
'Cause I know You always
Gimme, gimme, gimme grace when I need it
Hindsight 20/20, now I see that
You let me be where I've been
So I can be all that I am
You gimme, gimme, gimme faith to believe that
When it hurts, there's a real good reason
You let me be where I've been
So I can be all that I am
Better for it
Yeah, I used to think pain was a consequence
But now I kinda think it might be the perfect gift
You use to get me straight to You
And I'm better for it
I count it all as joy even when I'm in the flame
'Cause I know You always
Gimme, gimme, gimme grace when I need it
Hindsight 20/20, now I see that
You let me be where I've been
So I can be all that I am
You gimme, gimme, gimme faith to believe that
When it hurts, there's a real good reason
You let me be where I've been
So I can be all that I am
Better for it
Down low
Down in the broken
I found You
And I'm better for it
Down low
Down in the broken
I found You
And I'm better for it
I'm better 'cause I'll never have to be the way I would be
Without You, without You
Leading me where You want me
I'm better 'cause I'll never have to be the way I would be
Without You, without You
Leading me where You want me
Gimme, gimme, gimme grace when I need it
Hindsight 20/20, now I see that
You let me be where I've been
So I can be all that I am
You gimme, gimme, gimme faith to believe that
When it hurts, there's a real good reason
You let me be where I've been
So I can be all that I am
Better for it
Down low
Down in the broken
I found You
And I'm better for it
Down low
Down in the broken
I found You
And I'm better for it
Down low
Down in the broken
I found You
And I'm better for it
Down low
Down in the broken
I found You
And I'm better for it