MY OFFERING

I bring my heart, O Lord

To lay down at Your feet

All my brokenness and pain

I give to You, my King

This is my offering

I long to bring an offering to the Lord. He is so good to me… and He is so worthy!  But what can a morally and spiritually bankrupt person like me ever give to Him that He would want?

I bring my sin, O Lord

Before Your Mercy Seat

All my failings, all my fears

To give to You, my King

This is my offering

This is just a simple song, but to me it makes a simply profound point: all that I could ever truly offer to the Lord of myself is my great need of Him.

I bring my tears, my Lord

And in Your bottle keep

Not one lost, all written down

I give to You, my King,

This is my offering

“Surely He has borne our griefs

And carried our sorrows;

Yet we esteemed Him stricken,

Smitten by God, and afflicted.

But He was wounded for our transgressions,

He was bruised for our iniquities;

The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,

And by His stripes we are healed.”

~ Isaiah 53:4-5 (emphasis mine)

His salvation for all of my sin and failings; His healing for all of my brokenness and pain; and His peace for all of my fears and tears.  In short, His offering for mine.  Wow.

I bring my thirst, O Lord

Your Living Water seek

I lift up my empty cup

To give to You, my King

This is my offering

“What shall I render to the Lord

For all His benefits toward me?

I will take up the cup of salvation,

And call upon the name of the Lord.”

~ Psalm 116:12-13

I will say it again:  all that I could ever truly offer to the Lord of myself is my great need of Him.

I lift up my empty cup

To give to You, my King

This is my offering