This is by far one of my favorite church songs. I love how it describes the things that Christ did with his hands each day and it makes me look at my life differently every time I hear it. I think of my everyday tasks that I do to get through the day and i wonder how much is done for others and how much is done for myself... I'm so grateful for Jesus and all of his sacrifice and I'm especially grateful for the attonment. I included the lyrics to the song "His Hands" by Kenneth Cope because if you listen to the words and read them at the same time it seems to hit home a little harder... I hope you enjoy it as much as I do...
His Hands
Tools of creation
Stronger than nations
Power without end
And yet through them we find our truest friend
His hands
Sermons of kindness
Healing Mans Blindness
Halting years of pain
Children waiting to be held again
His hands would serve his whole life through
Showing man what hands might do
Giving, ever giving, endlessly
Each day was filled with selflessness
And I'll not rest until I make up my hands what they could be
Til these hands become like those of Galilee
His hands
Lifting a lepper
Warming a beggar
Calling back the dead
Breaking bread, 5,000 fed
His hands
Hushing contention
Pointing to Heaven
Ever free of sin
Then bidding man to follow him
His hands would serve his whole life through
Showing man what hands might do
Giving, ever giving, endlessly
Each day was filled with selflessness
And I'll not rest until I make my hands what they could be
Til these hands become like those of Galilee
His Hands
Clasped in Agony
As he lay pleading, bleeding in the garden
While just moments away
Other hands betray him
Out of greed, shameful greed
And then his hands
Are trembling
Straining to carry the beam that they've been nailed to
As he stumbles through the streets
Heading towards the hill on which he died
He would die
They take his hands, his mighty hands, those gentle hands
And then they pierce them, they pierce them
He lets them, because of love
From birth to death was selflessness
And clearly now I see him with his hands
Calling to me
And though I'm not yet as I would be
He has shown me how I could be
I will mkae my hands like those of Galilee
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