Lift Your Hands
Thus I will bless You while I live; I will lift up my hands in Your name. (Psalm 63:4) The lifting of our hands is an act of acknowledging someone greater than ourselves. It is a surrender to a superior person or power, and a sign that we offer our very selves to that person in respect and worship. Witness the scenes of worship to God in the Book of Revelation — the many references of lifted hands and voices praising the King. True worshipers are a people with their hands lifted to God, and we too, must be sure to lift our hands — today. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. (James 1:17) Everything good on earth comes down to us from God. Therefore, the only good thing that rises to God from us is our praise and our worship — our lifted hands. We will find that every time we lift our hands and glorify our Lord, He responds with an outpou...