I give
Thee back the life I owe, that in Thine ocean depths
its
flow may richer, fuller be.
---George Matheson, 1882
It’s hard to believe. Someone comes to you and says “Give
up your riches to me. Blindly trust that I will take them and increase them.” And if this were an email solicitation, or a risky
stock market offering, or a trench-coated fellow on a busy street corner, we
know we’d be foolish to go along. No one wants to be scammed like that.
However, this is what God calls us to do. Here the hymnist
imagines God as the personification of Love, a love that seeks us and pursues
us, wraps us up and embraces us. This love calls to us, “Trust me. Turn over
your life, which you may consider rich, full, and precious. In the depths of my
life, your life becomes rich indeed. Entrust your life to me to achieve depth
and meaning. You can rest here from your striving; here you are loved.”
This is a risk we can take, must take, if we are to live
lives of meaning. Oh, to be found in the ocean of God’s love!
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