I love the music of Andy Williams. He’s one of the crooners – from the 60s and 70s eras and later. They didn’t scream their lyrics and I can actually sing along with them. Their songs were more romantic or introspective kinds of tunes. Different songs draw me in with special meanings depending on what’s happening in my life, I think. That is probably true of most of us. God uses music in very unusual ways to reach us more than most other things.
The melody I heard Andy sing recently was titled “Your Hand, Your Heart, Your Love.”
Your Hand
Whose hand has more meaning than the hand of Father God? When I meditate upon this, I have a picture of His hand sitting on the top of my head and turning it in the directions He wants me to go: much like the hand of a child’s father when steering him through a crowd. We’ve all seen this.
God holds our circumstances, our lives, our loved ones in His hands. No matter how it looks, we can trust His Hands.
Your Heart
As a child, I learned about the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Usually depicted as a heart burning in flames (sort of like the Burning Bush, I guess). The idea is that God’s heart burns for us continually and passionately.
He longs to spend His time with us. He longs for us to bring our cares to Him. He has plans for our good. He tells us so again and again in His Word. He reaches for us – every day.
Your Love
God loves us passionately. Jesus showed us His love by giving Himself in our place in a death meant to swallow us. We are helpless not to fall into the pit for eternity. But Jesus put Himself in the place of sacrifice and we fall into Him instead of the pit. And when He raised Himself out of the abyss, He went home to heaven to prepare a place for us. Where He waits for right time to return for His people and our companionship for eternity. His love is His promise.
All of Eternity
The lyric of the song says that if the hero of the song had all of eternity, it would not be enough to tell his sweetheart how much he loves her. God has shown us His love from all eternity past and will continue to show us forever.
What about us? I think we are incapable of showing God our love for Him. We could not possibly give Him all that is due to Him. But we can give Him the one thing He asks. Ourselves. And, in light of His love for us, how can this gift be a sacrifice?
Still, Silent, Surrender
So now we take time to be still and unmoving. Set our eyes to be far-seeing to the horizon. As we sit in one place for a period of silence, we listen. In the stillness and the silence of our hearts, He speaks to us. And we surrender all those hidden things to His care. Because His hand is upon us. Because His heart is for us. Because His love is set upon us.
We might catch a glimpse of eternity that Jesus said He has gone to prepare for us.
“He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end” Ecclesiastes 3:11.
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