Hillsong UNITED - When I Lost My Heart To You Lyrics
Released: 31 Mar 2023
Lyrics
Verse
Love
Laid its breath against my chest
My skin was thick
But You breathed down all my walls
Oh love
Like the fire steals the cold
The ice wore thin
As Your light tore through my door
Pre-Chorus
You have my heart
You have my heart
You have my heart oh God
You have my heart
Chorus
Oh hallelujah
Hallelujah
Oh hallelujah
I found Your love
When I lost my heart to You
Verse
Love
Trading crowns to wear my shame
The Prince's throne
For the cross that bore my thorns
Oh love
Like crashing waves of endless grace
You won't relent
Until all I am is Yours
Tag
You have my heart oh God
And I have this love in You
Video
When I Lost My Heart To You (Hallelujah) - Of Dirt And Grace (Live From The Land) - Hillsong UNITED
Meaning & Inspiration
Hillsong UNITED’s “When I Lost My Heart To You,” released as part of the expanded edition of *Of Dirt And Grace: Live From The Land* in March 2023, delves into a profound exchange at the core of the Christian faith: the surrender of oneself in exchange for divine love. The song doesn't simply describe falling in love; it articulates the transformative nature of God’s love that shatters hardened defenses and reorients the believer's entire being. The opening verse powerfully illustrates this, portraying love’s persistent and gentle, yet ultimately unstoppable, presence that bypasses internal fortifications, a concept echoed in Song of Solomon 5:2, where love gently knocks, inviting entry, and in Ephesians 3:17, where Christ dwells within believers through faith. The imagery of fire melting ice speaks to the overwhelming warmth and power of God's affection overcoming spiritual coldness and resistance, much like God's enduring love is described as a consuming fire in Hebrews 12:29.
The repeated declaration, "You have my heart, oh God," serves as the emotional and theological anchor of the song. This isn't a passive offering; it’s an active surrender, a recognition that true freedom and fulfillment are found not in self-possession, but in yielding to the One who created us. This sentiment resonates deeply with the call to love God with all our heart, soul, and mind, as mandated in Deuteronomy 6:5 and reiterated by Jesus in Matthew 22:37. The chorus, with its exclamations of "Hallelujah," celebrates the joyous discovery of God's love precisely in the act of losing one's heart to Him. This paradox is the essence of the Gospel, where self-denial leads to true life, a concept Jesus Himself taught in Matthew 16:25: "For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it."
The second verse deepens this theological reflection by contrasting earthly notions of glory and power with the sacrificial nature of Christ's love. The image of trading crowns for shame, and a prince's throne for the cross, is a direct allusion to the humility and suffering of Jesus, who, though in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness and humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross (Philippians 2:6-8). The description of God's love as "crashing waves of endless grace" that will not relent until all of a person belongs to Him speaks to the persistent, overwhelming, and redemptive power of God's unmerited favor, a grace that is abundantly demonstrated in Romans 5:20, where "where sin abounded, grace did much more abound." The final tag, linking the possession of God's heart with the recipient's love found in Him, brings the song to a powerful conclusion, emphasizing the reciprocal and all-encompassing nature of this divine relationship, where all that we are is found and redeemed in Christ.