I’m In Your Hands
words & music by jimmy workman, © 2009
based on Psalm 139
Oh Lord, You search me, You know all my ways.
You know everything I do, all through my day.
You know all my thoughts, my fears, and my doubts.
My words You know, before they come from my mouth.
You wrote my name down before there was time.
Every day laid out, for this life of mine.
Search me and test all my thoughts, and my heart.
Lead me in Your ways, how perfect they are.
You love me Lord.
I’m in Your hands.
You hold me Lord.
I’m in your hands.
Where can I go where You are not there?
You’re down in the earth. You’re high in the air.
You’re there in the darkness. You’re there in the light.
You’re there with me, even in my darkest night.
You wrote my name down before there was time.
Every day laid out, for this life of mine.
Search me and test all my thoughts, and my heart.
Lead me in Your ways, how perfect they are.
You love me Lord.
I’m in Your hands.
You hold me Lord.
I’m in your hands.
Inspiration
Randy Singeris a lawyer, and pastor, and novelist who writes legal suspense novels. He preached at my church one Monday night in July of 2009. His scripture was Psalm 139. When he read the verses I was blown away by God. I had read this Psalm many times, but I guess this was the first time I Got It! The next morning I got up and read it again. Blown away again! God is awesome, and if you want to know just how awesome he is, read Psalm 139. I wrote I’m In Your Hands that same day.
Psalm 139
1 O LORD, you have searched me and you know me.2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. 3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.4 Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.5 You hem me in—behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me.6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,”12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you.19 If only you would slay the wicked, O God! Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!20 They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name.21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD, and abhor those who rise up against you?22 I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies.23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
