Favorite Lines from Great Hymns

Devotional thoughts from hymn lines in great hymns that encourage and inspire our faith as we walk with God.

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

I Am His and He Is Mine

 

“I Am His, and He Is Mine

"Heaven above is softer blue, Earth around is sweeter green!
Something lives in every hue Christless eyes have never seen:
Birds with gladder songs overflow, Flowers with deeper beauties shine,
Since I know, as now I know, I am His, and He is mine."

In this verse I am reminded that before I became a Christian, I never saw the creation of God as I do now. Our eyes are opened wide when we become a Christian and we see things we never saw before.

I like the words “Something lives in every hue.” It’s not just the color. Our eyes see God in everything we see. We know in our hearts that God created it, God cares for it, and God provides for it.

Our eyes behold scenes with awe and joy. We begin to see things as God sees them. And He said to all His creation: “It is good.”

Biblehub.com, Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary: "He spake and it was done. He commanded and all things stood fast" [Ps 33:9]. "Great and manifold are thy works, Lord God Almighty! in wisdom hast thou made them all" [Ps 104:24]. We admire that wisdom, not only in the regular progress of creation, but in its perfect adaptation to the end. God is represented as pausing at every stage to look at His work. No wonder He contemplated it with complacency. Every object was in its right place, every vegetable process going on in season, every animal in its structure and instincts suited to its mode of life and its use in the economy of the world. He saw everything that He had made answering the plan which His eternal wisdom had conceived; and, "Behold it was very good" [Ge 1:31].

Thank you, God, that my eyes were opened, and I can see your marvelous works in every hue!

By His Grace . . .


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