Songfacts®:

• The title track of Lauren Daigle's debut album, this was released as its lead single on July 8, 2014.
• Lauren Daigle is the first female artist in CCM history to earn two Gold singles from her debut album. Both this song and the "Trust in You" were certified Gold after achieving 500,000 units sold. At the Christian Music Broadcasters' Momentum conference in Orlando Daigle said:
  
  "'Trust In You' and 'How Can It Be' are two songs I often return to when I feel in the thick of difficulty. They remind me of a grace that outruns any mistake, any amount of shame that arises in this race. They remind me to lift my eyes to the one most sovereign. I'm so honoured that so many people have been impacted by these truths just as I have."
• "How Can It Be" won Song of the Year for the 2015 GMA Dove Awards. Daigle won Best New Artist of the Year at the same ceremony.
• "How Can It Be" came to Lauren Daigle before it ever felt like her song. Producer Paul Mabury played her the track one day, explaining that he had written it with Jason Ingram and Jeff Johnson. As she listened, her reaction surprised her. The lyrics hit with such force that she began to cry, struck by how personally she was responding to words she hadn't written herself.
  
  Mabury then explained the song's biblical inspiration, pointing Daigle to John 7, the passage where Jesus is confronted by the Pharisees after they bring an adulterous woman before him, demanding judgment. Under the law, she is meant to be stoned. Instead, Jesus does something unexpected; he bends down, writes in the sand, and ultimately extends grace rather than condemnation.
  
  That moment reframed the song for Daigle. She connected it to her own experience of mercy; recognizing times when she felt she deserved the worst but was met instead with forgiveness. As she interpreted it, the song became a testimony of redemption: God stepping in amid sin and shame, washing what felt irredeemably dirty clean, and fighting on her behalf.