Hymn: Take My Life and Let it Be

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Jul '20

Hymn: Take My Life and Let it Be

Posted on Jul 18, 2020 by Ken Durham in Devotions, General |

18
Jul '20
Seize the Moment – Day 123

Take My Life and Let it Be

 
If you know anything about the television series or the latest film releases of “Mission: Impossible”, you will remember that they were given a mission to complete, and then the call would self destruct in 5 seconds, removing all record of the mission given except for their own memory of it. I would like to change that a little and say you have a “Mission: Possible”, and the plan to carry it out is written in God’s Word. We all have received the call to be on mission, but the problem is, we get distracted or off track because we have not fully bought in or surrendered to the plan.

 

Hymnist Frances Havergal had served the Lord for years, but felt that something was missing in her Christian walk. After receiving a book that stressed the importance of making Christ the King of every part of her life, she made a fresh commitment to Christ. On December 2, 1873, Advent Sunday, she said she saw “the blessedness of true consecration as a flash of electric light, and what you see you can never un-see. There must be true surrender before there can be full blessedness.” She soon wrote the great consecration hymn “Take My Life and Let it Be”. But the verses of that hymn came in waves, as she found herself in different seasons of her life, each one with a new challenge that came from God’s Word during her devotion time.

 

“Take my voice and let me sing” challenged her to move from being a featured vocalist with the Philharmonic, to only using her voice in ministry for the Lord.

 

“Take my silver and my gold, not a mite would I withhold” moved her to donate a great deal of jewelry to the Church Missionary Society, keeping only a brooch for daily wear in honor of her parents and a locket that had a picture of  her niece, Evelyn, that had passed away. She said she had never packed up a box with such pleasure.

 

Have you totally surrendered EVERYTHING over to Jesus?
 
Seize the moment and get on mission with Jesus and His call for your life.
 
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If you would like to read the words to this hymn or hear the melody played, click on this link:
https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/h/445
 
 

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