Don Moen - We Are An Offering Lyrics

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Don Moen - We Are An Offering (by Dwight Liles)

Meaning & Inspiration

I keep coming back to those lines about lifting our lives up to God. It makes me think of Romans 12, where Paul talks about presenting our bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable. It’s heavy when you sit with it, really. Most of the time, I’m good at lifting my hands in a room full of people, but lifting my whole life? That’s different. The song is simple, almost too simple, but it hits on that idea that nothing we have is actually ours to begin with. We’re just handing back what was already His.

It feels honest to say "all that we hope to be" is part of the gift. Sometimes I think I’m only giving God the parts of me that are already cleaned up, but this song insists on giving the future too—the stuff I haven’t even figured out yet. It makes me wonder if I’m actually ready to be used like that. It’s one thing to sing about being an offering, but it’s another to actually be broken and poured out, the way Jesus was. He didn't just lift His hands; He gave everything. I guess that’s the tension for me. Can I honestly say my life is an offering, or am I just borrowing the language to feel better about where I’m at? It’s a strange feeling, being both the giver and the gift. I’m not sure I’ve ever been fully comfortable with the idea that I don’t own myself, even though the Bible says I was bought with a price. It’s hard to let go of the steering wheel, even while I’m singing about giving it all away.