Into your hands, I commend my spirits.

 Into Your Hands

Into Your hands, I commend my spirit,

This breath You gave,to You I now restore it.

Not a demand,but a surrendered plea—

My life,my all, for all eternity.

Into your hands I commit my spirit; deliver me, LORD, my faithful God. (Psalm 31:5)

Here is my will, my fragile, striving heart,

Each hidden part,and every finished start.

Take what is wounded,take what is afraid,

And in the hollow of Your palm,let it be laid.

My times are in your hands. (Psalm 31:15)

Here is my past—its joy and its regret,

The chapters I would write,and those I would forget.

Here is my present—all its weight and care,

I place it in Your keeping,leaving every fear there.

Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. (1 Peter 5:7)

And here is my tomorrow, an unformed, clouded space,

The future and its mystery,I trust into Your grace.

For in Your hands,the unknown is a known,

A path prepared,a seed of goodness sown.

For I know the plans I have for you... plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. (Jeremiah 29:11)

I commend to You my loves, the faces that I hold,

A story far more precious to You than human gold.

I commend my weakness,my limited, mortal span,

And find,within Your grasp, the strength of "I Am."

I can do all this through him who gives me strength. (Philippians 4:13)

No safer place exists, no stronger hold can be,

Than here,where nail-scarred hands were stretched to set me free.

They shaped the stars,they touched the leper's sore,

And they will keep me now,and evermore.

My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. (John 10:27-28)

So I let go, to be more fully held.

The story of my soul,in Yours, is now compelled.

Into Your hands, I commend it all—

My rising and my resting,my triumphs and my fall.

Father, into your hands I commit my spirit. (Luke 23:46)

It is finished, and it now begins anew.

I am safe.I am Yours. And I trust You.

Amen.

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A Note on the Phrase:

The prayer"Into your hands I commit my spirit" is one of the most profound surrenders in Scripture. Jesus spoke it on the cross (Luke 23:46), echoing the faith of the Psalmist (Psalm 31:5). To "commit" or "commend" means to entrust for safekeeping. It is not a command to God, but the ultimate act of placing oneself under His command and care. The poem above is a fleshing out of that whole-life surrender, trusting that the hands that hold the universe are gentle enough to hold a single, trusting heart.