Healing Is In Your Hands

The title of this blog is the title of my current favorite worship song. Of course, Christy Nockels is singing vocals. I mean, besides Brooke Fraser, should any other female really sing great worship songs? I'm half kidding.

The words are so powerful. "No mountain, no valley, no gain or loss we know - could keep us from Your love." The song resonates with me on this "understanding God's love" journey I'm currently walking through. Singing truth, particularly truth directly from Scripture, combined with a powerful melody makes for the perfect worship tune in my opinion. What else is there to say or declare except the truth of God's Word. No other words have the power to slice us the way Scripture does. Hebrews 4:12 says, "For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart." We could just stop there and let that one soak like laundry in Borax, but dramatic pauses don't work well in blogs, so we'll keep going.

The bridge of the song mentioned above says, "In all things, we know that, we are more than conquerors, you keep us by your love, you keep us by your love!" Over and over in this song it's one scripture after another. Please, please, please, download this song!

Mattie sings this song at the top of her lungs while riding in the van (a little under pitch, but when you're two, nobody cares). The sound of her holding out the long notes on the chorus saying, "How high.....How wide......No matter where I am, healing is in Your hands....How deep....How strong...Now by Your grace I stand, healing is in Your hands" does something inside of me. She is unaware of what she's singing, but I'm praying the truth of God's love becomes part of our non-negotiable reality for the rest of our lives. Sing on, Mattie! Declare that truth over us!

Healing is in the wounds of His hands. This is not a "feel good" love we're talking about. This is the real deal - sacrificial, self-forgetting love. The kind God offers and that we should offer each other. Living out the love of God is by no means easy but it's the most fulfilling for both the extender and the receiver.

Once you've downloaded this song (yes, I'm pressuring you) - I hope you just drip with gratitude at the measure of love extended to each of us. And I hope that you are able to offer a cup of cold water you filled with the overflow of thankfulness to someone who needs refreshing in a "dry and weary land where there is no water" (Psalm 63:1).

Because healing through God's love is in His hands, if you follow Him - it's in yours, too.