All My Love
You made a way for me
To come to your mercy seat
Your death has opened up the
door
Now that the veil has been
torn
My broken life is restored
Your precious blood has
washed me clean
All my love is yours, all of my affection
All my heart belongs to the lord most high
One thing I ask and seek
To gaze upon your beauty
To dwell in your house
forever more
For my body longs for you
More than for drink or food
My soul thirsts for the
living God
All of my heart and my soul
All of my strength is yours
All of my hopes and my dreams
I give to you my king
All of my plans and my ways
I lay them down and say
All of my love is yours
Today we looked at the song All My Love which talked about giving all of my love to Him. In the
first few lines it talked of how He showed us mercy and made a way for us to be
made clean and restored by what He did on the cross. It talked of how because
of that we want to give Him all our love. The chorus sang of this saying, “All
my love is yours, all of my affection. All my heart belongs to the lord most
high.” Maybe it is because these lines reminded me of two of my favorite songs,
Lord I Lift Your Name on High and All in All, but it reminded me of how He
is my everything, and my need to give Him my everything as I live to love and
glorify Him. The closing verse talked about giving Him all of my hopes, dreams,
and plans. Dreams of getting married and raising children of my own. Plans of
maybe adopting children from around the world, if I couldn’t have kids of my
own. And Hopes of one day being free from all my injuries, and being able to
think more clearly. I have so many hopes, dreams and plans for my future, but
as the song says, I need to say, “I lay them down and say, all my love is
yours.” I trust that God knows who I am and what I love, and that He will meet
my desires whether it is the way I hope He fulfills them, or not. This life is
not about me, it’s about Him, and I want to give Him all my love.
Later we talked about the story of Jesus feeding the 5000.
The boy made a huge gesture in that he gave all he could, but in regards to
what was needed, it would be considered meager. And yet because he put it into
God’s hands, it was used to accomplish amazing things! This gives me great
hope, because I see how it can be true of my life. I have a very willing heart
to give God all that I can, but often it still would be considered meager to
this world. But the hope I find in this story, is that it’s not about what I
can give, but what God can give, with what I have to offer. This is where my
hope lies. That the amazing God I love and serve will use my life and all that
I give to Him, to accomplish great things.
