Have you ever heard a song or scripture and felt the weight of the Lord’s love for you? The next time you experience His presence in such a way, I encourage you to pause and soak it in. God loves you so much, and He wants you to love Him to. In his song, Abandoned, Benjamin William Hastings explores what it means to express our awe back to the Lord.
Benjamin William Hastings
Benjamin William Hastings is a Christian singer and songwriter from Northern Ireland. After moving to Australia, Hastings met and married his wife, Jessa. The pair shared a passion for writing but quickly decided that their creativity was better apart than together. Around the time of this decision, Hastings connected with Hillsong United. Following his collaboration with the group for the song “So Will I (100 Billion X)”, Hastings pursued his songwriting with greater fervor and success.
Hastings continues to write praise music while he lives with his family in Los Angeles, CA. His desire to unite honesty with the divinity of God continues to inspire new songs out of his heart. It’s with this keen desire that Hastings writes songs like Abandoned.
Abandoned
Have you ever found yourself caught in a beautiful mix of awe and disbelief over our God? Benjamin William Hastings has, and his song Abandoned describes the depth of his emotions for the Lord. Abandoned is Hastings’ response to the reality of God’s love for us. The Creator of the universe stepped down to earth for our sakes and put Himself on a cross to rescue us from our crimes against Him. How can we not be in awe of Him? Such a great sacrifice should be more than enough to bring us to our knees before the Lord. More than acknowledging the Lord’s great love for us, though, Hastings expresses his deep desire to respond with utter abandon to himself.
To be Abandoned to the Lord is to live out our awe of Him in practical, real ways. Beyond accepting His love for us, we ought to submit our ways, thoughts, loves, desires, and plans to Him. Seeing His love for us should stir up our love for Him! From the worst to the best of ourselves, all that we are is His and we should give it to Him willingly. Instead of holding onto our pride and selfish ways, we can open our hands in surrender and trust Him to mold our lives in His best ways. From there, the Lord will reveal what an Abandoned life for Him looks like.
Abandoned // Benjamin William Hastings // Acoustic Performance
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Lyrics
Somethin’ isn’t adding up
This wild exchange You offer us
I gave my worst, You gave Your blood
Seems hard to believe
You’re tellin’ me You chose the Cross?
You’re tellin’ me I’m worth that much?
Well, if that’s the measure of Your love
How else would I sing?
But completely, deeply, sold-out, sincerely abandoned
I’m completely, freely, hands-to-the-ceiling enamored
My one-life endeavor
To match Your surrender
To mirror not my will, but Yours
Oh, I’m completеly, deeply, don’t-care-who-sees-me abandoned
Oh, I surrеnder all
I just can’t get over it
What kind of self-control is this?
When You had angels at Your fingertips
But on the Cross You remained
And I can’t repay that kind of love
But I can praise with everything I’ve got
Since death had all of it’s power robbed
Then just like the grave
I’m completely, deeply, sold-out, sincerely abandoned
I’m completely, freely, hands-to-the-ceiling enamored
Oh, my one-life endeavor
To match Your surrender
To mirror not my will, but Yours
Oh, I’m completely, deeply, don’t-care-who-sees-me abandoned
Oh, I surrender all
I surrender all
I surrender all
The whole of my heart, the best of my soul
Each phase of my life, each breath in my lungs
Consider it Yours, Lord
Consider it Yours, Lord
The failures I hide, the victories I don’t
The battles I fight, each crown that I hoard
Consider it Yours, Lord
Consider it Yours, Lord
All the glory forever, the grave that You won
The praise of the Heavens, the kingdom to come
Oh, consider it Yours, Lord
Consider it Yours
I’m completely, deeply, sold-out, sincerely abandoned (Hey!)
I’m completely, freely, hands-to-the-ceiling enamored
Oh, my one-life endeavor
To match Your surrender
To mirror not my will, but Yours
I’m completely, deeply, don’t-care-who-sees-me abandoned
Oh, I surrender all
No, You’ll never leave me abandoned
I surrender all
Related Scriptures
- Romans 8:31-39 Paul is convinced that we are more conquerors in the Lord and that nothing can separate us from the love of God.
- Romans 12 Paul writes about being a living sacrifice for the Lord and how we are called to live sincere and loving lives as examples of Him to others.
- Romans 14:7-9 As believers, our lives belong to the Lord. Whether dead or alive, we are His.
- Philippians 1:21-26 Paul deeply desired to abandon his life here to be with the Lord, but he trusted the Lord would use him for good and had joy in his ministry for the Lord.
- Paul’s writings throughout the New Testament reveal a heart and life Abandoned for the Lord.
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