empty handed, but not forsaken
I know just about everyone in my church and school life knows the song Oceans by Hillsong. A less common song by them is Broken Vessels which is kind of a spinoff amazing Grace and I fell in love with it when I first heard it. I was in my first year of sign language and my teacher played it and that one part of the song rang in my head all day The song that only has beautiful music but amazing lyrics. One of the most overlooked lyric that I don't really see people talking much about is "empty-handed but not forsaken" and it happens to be one of my favorite quotes and it's actually my home screen background right now. But what exactly does it mean?
I first heard this lyric back when the song was released back in 2014 in those were the days that I was I answer questions to myself so I resorted to my best friend: Google. I looked up this lyric and the word meaning following it and I couldn't find anything and that left me thinking well I guess I'll never know the true meaning but that lyrics stuck with me time and ringing in my head daily. The spirit with me for the past 5 years and I took it upon myself to find the meanings within my ideas and how I felt it meant in my perspective.
God doesn't expect us to come to him pure and without fault. When we call on Christ. sometimes we appear in front of Him empty-handed, with nothing to offer Him, as if life spun out of control and left us with nothing. Though we are empty-handed, God will never forsake us. He will never turn us away, He will never abandon us because we are not worthy. Everyone is worthy in his eyes and there will be days where we will feel unworthy and overwhelmed and shut down, but He reminds us that we will never be forsaken, we will never be left alone when we have Him.
This lyric is a life motto to carry around for the rest of our days i'm so grateful I heard this song in my sign language class 5 years ago.
I connected two of the wallpapers I made containing this heart-touching lyric that cant hopefully touch yours as well.
much love,
Mia Grace
