Safe

"To the one who's dreams are falling all apart
And all you're left with is a tired and broken heart:
I can tell by your eyes you think you're on your own,
but you're not all alone.

Have you heard of the One who can calm the raging seas
Give sight to the blind, pull the lame up to their feet?
With a love so strong he'll never let you go,
oh you're not alone.

You will be safe in His arms.
You will be safe in His arms.
'Cause the hands that hold the world are holding your heart,
This is the promise He made:
He will be with You always.
When everything is falling apart,
You will be safe in His arms

Did you know that the voice that brings the dead to life,
Is the very same voice that calls you now to rise?
So hear Him now, He's calling you home.
You will never be alone.

These are the hands that built the mountains,
the hands that calm the seas.
These are the arms that hold the heavens,
they are holding you and me.

These are hands that healed the leper,
Pulled the lame up to their feet,
These are the arms that were nailed to a cross,
to break our chains and set us free."


This morning I walked into my classroom and pulled up some music that a friend recently gave me. I opened up the artist, and randomly selected a song I thought I had never heard. As the music started playing, I started crying. They were words that I desperately needed to hear today...

I don't think following Jesus is safe...at all. In fact, I think it is in all worldly thinking the most dangerous thing one can do. And there are days when my heart fights against the surrender to which I know Christ has called me. It's unsafe. It's scary. It's uncomfortable. And yet I know... the day I met Christ is the day He started redefining my definition of "safe." Safe means I trust Him. Safe means I believe there is One who can work anything for my good. Safe means I go where He wants me to go and do what He wants me to do because I reverently adore and fear Him. Safe means a broken heart...because to love anyone this side of heaven means hurt. Safe means surrender.

And this morning, as the words to this song confronted me with the struggle deep within, I could feel that tugging on my heart. He will be with me. When my world is in utter chaos, my future uncertain, my heart torn, I am still safe. Not because I will choose to stop loving people that I know I may have to leave, or because I will choose to shut off my heart to what God may be doing that feels anything but safe...but because He is with me.
And I am in His hands.
Para sempre.
Always.