Empty-Handed But Alive In Your Hands

https://odb.org/MY/2021/09/03/empty-hands

There is this worship song entitled Majesty by Delirious, with these words, “Your grace has found me just as I am. Empty-handed but alive in Your Hands.”

The Father will accept us no matter what our situation and condition. We are what we are. In His grace and in His compassion, He will take us as we are. With nothing to offer Him, He will take us and make us come alive in His Hands. Like the prodigal son who squandered his inheritance in wild living and was left with nothing but the clothes on his back and who was willing to work as a servant with the pigs, his father rejoiced that he was back and restored his place as his son with a fine robe and a ring.

This reminds me of the little kitten my son adopted two months back. She was abandoned by her mother at our house compound. We took her in, fed her and she now stays inside our house at the guest room with her own toilet. She had nothing and was alone before but now she has a family of humans who love her.

But I think the message today is more than that. I think it is more about the fact that Jesus is able to and will make us come alive in His Hands whether we are empty-handed or have something to offer Him in the form of our wealth, talent, education or fame. We are alive in His Hands in the sense that we will become the person we should be in His Hands, sanctified and prepared for His service. We will realise our fullest potential as a human being with Him in our lives. We will achieve the plans and purposes He had planned for us even before we were conceived in our mother’s womb.

Whatever is our situation whether we have nothing or we have something to offer; come to Jesus today and be a living sacrifice unto Him. He is worthy of our worship and honour and praise as He had died for our sins. Whether we are already in the faith or not, come to Jesus. He will take our nothing and make it into something. He will take our something and make it into something more, a piece of sculpture that will shine forth the glory of the Father. He is and will be the Potter and we the clay. Let Him mould us and make us into a thing of beauty – unblemished, holy and worthy before the Father. As much as God is beautiful beyond description, we can be and will be beautiful too as we come alive in His Hands!