Singing Take My Life and Let It Be

Friday, June 21

Singing Take My Life and Let It Be

Come, let us sing to the Lord! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come to him with thanksgiving. Let us sing psalms of praise to hill. Psalm 95:1-2

“Take My Life and Let It Be” is a 🎵hymn that expresses a believer’s desire for change and a closer walk with God. Written by Frances Havergal, the hymn begins with the words:

“Take my life, and let it be

consecrated, Lord, to thee.

Take my moments and my days,

let them flow in ceaseless praise.”

This song, in particular, covers every part of life: where I walk, what I say, the path we will take, and the life I lead. It is all His.

Somehow, as she wrote this hymn in the mid-1800s, Frances Ridley Havergal felt the same push in her soul that we may still feel today—to say to God that all I have and all I am is for Him and His glory. There is no category of my life I want to withhold from Him.

People in the Bible—folks who were just like us, not knowing where their lives were going or how their stories would end—said similar things. In Isaiah chapter six, we see Isaiah telling God that he was willing to go wherever God would send him (Isaiah 6:8). In the opening chapter of Philippians, Paul writes that, no matter his situation, he wants his life to glorify Christ, whether in life or in death (Philippians 1:20-21).

So, that is what we sing. And that may be why we sing. It’s the conviction of our voice that keeps me here, by His grace—offering all I am, and ever will be, to Him.

Take myself and I will be

Ever.

Only.

All for Thee. 

Prayer for today: Heavenly Father, thank You for calling us back unto You. Strengthen our faith and guide our steps as we seek to know You more deeply. Amen.