Your Hands

"The God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about--not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience." -D.A. Carson

Tonight was the fourth week in the campus ministry's serious on prayer. It was in the midst of hearing a prayer written by a 12 year old who was dying of AIDS that the power of prayer really sunk in. As the little girl put it, prayer of hope and belief in God, though struggle and pain surrounded her.


I love the words to the song, "Your Hands" by JJ Heller. I'm posting the lyrics because they are worth it. And the song is worth it so I encourage you to look it up.


I have unanswered prayers
I have trouble I wish wasn't there
And I have asked a thousand ways
That you would take my pain away
You would take my pain away

I am trying to understand
How to walk this weary land
Make straight the paths that crooked lie
Oh Lord, before these feet of mine
Oh Lord, before these feet of mine

When my world is shaking, heaven stands
When my heart is breaking
I never leave your hands

When you walked upon the earth
You healed the broken, lost and hurt
I know you hate to see me cry
One day you will set all things right
Yeah, one day you will set all things right

When my world is shaking, heaven stands
When my heart is breaking
I never leave your hands

Your hands that shaped the world
Are holding me
They hold me still


bee tea dubs, "Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may recieve mercy and find grace to help in time of need"-Hebrews 4:16