Lift My Life Up

I lift my life, lift my life up
I give it all in surrender
I lift my heart, lift my heart up
You can have it forever.

I lift my life up? It may seem a little strange to lift your life up. Normally we think of the life of a Christian being that of laying their life down. We read Jesus’ words of love for another by laying his life down. But here we’re calling out to Jesus saying that we’re going to lift our life up to him. What gives?

I guess it’s a matter of perspective. It’s a timing issue. So to follow Christ you lay your life down. You lay down your own passions and desires, usually not all that healthy when you really think about it. And you pick up, or better yet have put on you, the very life of Jesus. It’s great! It’s no longer my pathetic excuse at trying to do good but it’s all about Jesus and what he’s done for me. Then, and only then, can we lift our life up. The idea of lifting our life up is that we desire all that we do be worthy of giving God praise and honor and glory.

When we say we’re going to lift our life up to God, we’re saying that we want God to be glorified in our thoughts, words and actions. It’s about surrender. It’s a recognition that we’re new people in Christ, but we still mess up. We desire now, by the power of the Holy Spirit, to live a different life…a life that’s lifted higher than our present reality. We desire to live to higher calling. It’s true, in Christ we have an upward calling. So it really shouldn’t be odd that we lift our lives up. It’s what God asked for in the bible.

So go ahead. Surrender to him in confession. Then lift your life up to him in worship. It’s where real living is found.