“Nothing I Hold On To”

by Will Reagan and United Pursuit

I lean not on my own understanding

My life is in the hands of the Maker of heaven

 I give it all to You God

trusting that you’ll make something beautiful out of me

 There’s nothing I hold on to

 I will climb this mountain with my hands wide open

I often have felt God speaking to me directly through songs. Certain songs have been very meaningful in my spiritual journey. “Oceans” by Hillsong United and “Your Great Name” by Natalie Grant were both very influential during the very beginning of our journey leading us to Kenya.

On our youth missions’ trip to Ecuador this summer, one of the teens introduced us to the song “Nothing I hold on to” by United Pursuit. Singing it for the first time looking up at the Andes Mountains, and as I continue listening from home, I know God is using this song to remind me to hold on to nothing. To be continually releasing anything I find myself starting to grip on to. I tend to grip things that I want to control, yet God calls us to open our hands wide to His leading every day.

I am thankful that God takes our trust and our life and makes something beautiful out of each one of us. That was what struck us about the children at Naomi’s Village. Their lives are in God’s hands and it is through Christ’s redemptive work in their lives that they now can be taken from brokenness and be made beautiful. We are not in control of everything that happens in our lives but we can know that God is in control, and he is indeed making beautiful lives out of those who surrender to Him.

Each one of us have mountains in front of us that we have to climb and I pray that by sharing this song it will encourage us all to have our hands wide-open to the maker of all.