Higher Ways

A wish to see everything from above opens the song: "if I could only fly, I'd go up and look down from the sky so I could see the bigger picture." Steven Curtis Chapman then imagines sitting at God's feet "for an hour or two" and admits he'd "ask too many questions," since "there's so much going on down here that I must confess I just don't understand."

Prayer becomes the answer to that confusion. "At Your feet my whole life has been laid," he sings, "so I won't worry, I won't be afraid, because my soul is resting on Your higher ways." Even if "the road ahead" turns "unclear," he reasons, "I am Yours, so what have I to fear?" The chorus keeps returning to the word "trust."

The refrain lifts the idea: "Your higher ways are not like mine," and they are "the ways of a father hiding his children in his love." Rain and tears are allowed, but "this hope I have will not be washed away." The finish holds the promise of a future view: "someday I will fly," and until then, "a soul that's resting on Your higher ways." Isaiah 55:8-9 states those higher ways, Proverbs 3:5-6 tells believers to trust and not lean on their own understanding, and Psalm 27:5 describes being hidden in God's shelter.