I Am Yours

Psalm 119:94 - "Save me, for I am yours; I have sought out your precepts."

The words that David writes in Psalm 119:94 are profound. He seeks God's intervention for his salvation, and then he says, "I am Yours." Three simple words that carry so much meaning!

David the king, belonged to God. So many kings in the Ancient Near East world rejected God. Not David, he was God's. He viewed himself as a possession of the Almighty. Do you? Can you say, as we approach this Thanksgiving holiday that you are grateful for God's ownership of you? For God to own you means that He is Lord of your life. Your life is in His hands.

In 1876, just one year before he died, George W. Robinson wrote the words to the hymn, "I Am His, and He is Mine." Read the words of this 131-year-old hymn:

Loved with everlasting love, led by grace that love to know;
Gracious Spirit from above, Thou hast taught me it is so!
O this full and perfect peace! O this transport all divine!
In a love which cannot cease, I am His, and He is mine.
In a love which cannot cease, I am His, and He is mine.

Heav’n above is softer blue, Earth around is sweeter green!
Something lives in every hue Christless eyes have never seen;
Birds with gladder songs o’erflow, flowers with deeper beauties shine,
Since I know, as I now know, I am His, and He is mine.
Since I know, as I now know, I am His, and He is mine.

Things that once were wild alarms cannot now disturb my rest;
Closed in everlasting arms, pillowed on the loving breast.
O to lie forever here, doubt and care and self resign,
While He whispers in my ear, I am His, and He is mine.
While He whispers in my ear, I am His, and He is mine.

His forever, only His; Who the Lord and me shall part?
Ah, with what a rest of bliss Christ can fill the loving heart!
Heav’n and earth may fade and flee, firstborn light in gloom decline;
But while God and I shall be, I am His, and He is mine.
But while God and I shall be, I am His, and He is mine.

I hope that you can say that You are His. If not, let this be the day. The Bible tells us that, "If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved." (Romans 10:9) Trust Him with your life.

Dear God,

I am Yours, and I thank You for saving me. Help me to live my life in such a way that I'll draw others to You. I want to hear as many as possible say, "I am His!"

In Jesus' name,

Amen.