O Love That Will Not Let Me Go

George Matheson sat alone on his sister's wedding night, a blind pastor abandoned years earlier by his fiancée who couldn't bear life with a blind man. In just five minutes, from this place of profound heartache, he penned one of the greatest hymns of surrender and God’s faithfulness: "O Love That Will Not Let Me Go."

This episode takes you on a journey through each verse of this extraordinary hymn, revealing how Matheson transformed personal tragedy into a theological masterpiece. We explore the paradoxical nature of Christian surrender – how giving up control leads not to loss but to gaining something far greater. When we surrender our lives, we receive them back "richer, fuller." When we yield our "flickering torch," we gain access to God's "sunshine blaze." Even in our deepest pain, we can "trace the rainbow through the rain."

What are you holding that needs to be laid down? Where have you been trying to maintain control? Join us as we explore how surrender becomes the pathway to seeing and receiving God's unfailing love that will not let us go.

SHOW NOTES:

“O Love That Will Not Let Me Go” from Indelible Grace: The Hymn Sing, Live in Nashville (feat. Sandra McCracken)

Indelible Grace: The Hymn Sing, Live in Nashville is double-disc live album from the Indelible Grace Hymn Sing at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, June 30th, 2010. Check out the full album here.

Indelible Grace Hymnbook with various worship resources is available for free here.

Transcript

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In our last episode, we learned what it means to be yielded and still. As we reflected on the quiet surrender of have Thine Own Way, lord, a hymn born out of personal disappointment and shaped by the image of the potter and the clay, it called us to lay down control and trust the hand that forms us. This week, we take that surrender one step further not only laying our lives down, but resting in a love that refuses to let go. This week, we explore the depths of a hauntingly beautiful hymn penned by George Matheson O Love that Will Not Let Me Go. It's a hymn that speaks of broken dreams, and behind its powerful poetry lies a very human story of heartbreak. Yet hope oh love that will not let me go is the hymn of the soul clinging to hope and suffering and, even more, the song of the soul realizing that it's being held. If last week was all about yielding, this week is all about being kept, not by our strength but by the steadfast love of God. And so let's dig in to this incredible hymn. As always, before we get started, don't forget to click subscribe and follow us at the Bright Forever so that you never miss an episode.

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Episode. George Matheson was a brilliant Scottish pastor and theologian. By age 20, he was already experiencing a condition that would soon lead to total blindness. Despite his disability, he completed seminary and entered ministry with the help of his devoted sister. But on the eve of his sister's wedding in 1882, at age 40, matheson felt the full weight of personal grief. Years earlier, his own fiance had broken off their engagement when she learned he was going blind. She told him she couldn't live with a blind man. And now, as his sister, the one who had faithfully cared for him, prepared to leave and start her own life, matheson was left in deep emotional pain. In that moment he sat down In his own words. He wrote this entire hymn in five minutes.

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My hymn was composed in the manse of Inelen on the evening of June 6th 1882. I was at that time alone. It was the day of my sister's marriage, and the rest of my family were staying overnight in Glasgow. Something had happened to me staying overnight in Glasgow. Something had happened to me which was known only to myself and which caused me the most severe mental suffering. The hymn was the fruit of that suffering.

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It was the quickest bit of work I ever did in my life. I had the impression of having it dictated to me by some inward voice than of working it out myself. I am quite sure that the whole work was completed in five minutes and equally sure that it never received at my hands any retouching or correction. I have no natural gift of rhythm. All the other verses I have written are manufactured articles. This came like a day spring from on high. I have never been able to gain once more the same fervor in verse. What poured out of him wasn't bitterness or despair. It was a declaration of trust in God's unfailing love.

Speaker 1 9:41

Let's explore that opening line. Oh, love that will not let me go. I rest my weary soul in thee. I give thee back the life I owe that in thine ocean depths. Its flow May richer, fuller be. This isn't just sentimental poetry, it's surrender theology. It kind of echoes a lot of what we talked about last week Wounded and weary. Help me, I pray. The hymn invites us to give back the very life we owe to God, not to lose it, but to find it again and find it to be richer and a fuller life in him. It reminds us of Jesus's words in John 12, 24, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone, but if it dies, it bears much fruit. The third line I give thee back the life I owe is the key to what Jesus is saying.

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Here Matheson is expressing a spiritual surrender, offering his life back to God, not as a loss but as a planting. He is the grain of wheat falling into the soil and what's the result? That in thine ocean depths, its flow may richer, fuller be. This parallels Jesus's promise that when a seed dies, it doesn't end in death. It multiplies, bears fruit and becomes more than it was alone and becomes more than it was alone.

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This is something that has really been hitting home for me, because what this is saying and what I think Jesus is saying is you can't bear fruit until you surrender. You want that richer, fuller life. Let go of yourself. Surrender. You're weak and you're wounded and you're weary and you can't do it. Let go. You don't need to hold on to God's love. God's love is holding on to you. This hymn teaches that when we surrender what we think we need to control our lives, our strength, our will, we're not giving it up to nothing. We're giving it back to a love that does not let go, and what we receive in return is far richer and fuller. Now understand when Jesus is speaking in John 12,. He's speaking of his impending death. A paradox where life comes through loss and fruitfulness comes through surrender. He lost his life so that we could have life. He is the wheat that allows us to be the fruit of what he did.

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It's also a picture of what discipleship looks like Laying down one's life in order to receive it back fuller and richer in Christ. Surrender isn't loss. It's the beginning of new life. The first stanza presents the love of God as an anchor for the weary soul. It's not a fickle love, it's not an on-again, off-again, uncertain kind of love. It's a resolute, pursuing, covenant-keeping love and it will not let us go. And that's just the first verse. O light that follows all my way, I yield my flickering torch to thee. My heart restores its borrowed ray. That in thy sunshines blaze. Its day may brighter, fairer be. Here we move from God's love to his light, from the soul to its path. He speaks of giving up that small flickering flame in exchange for something greater. That in thy sun shines, blaze its day may brighter, fairer be. This is about yielding our understanding, our vision, our plans, especially in suffering. You see, matheson's blindness is clearly reflected in this verse. He's essentially saying God, I give you my dim torchlight because I trust your sunlight more. In Matheson's case, losing physical sight sharpened him spiritually. He came to see, as it were, more clearly by faith than he ever had by sight.

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There's an article I read that beautifully observes what happens in many of us. It said something like we prefer our flickering torch to God's full blaze of sunlight because we can control that. The line I yield my flickering torch to thee is easy to sing but incredibly hard to live. Because the truth is we like our torches. They may flicker, they may be weak, but they're ours. They give us a sense of control, a little light that we can hold. We can manage, we can point it where we choose, even if it's dim. We feel safer with something we can direct. But here's the deeper question Is the light you're holding enough to lead you, not where you want to go, but where you need to go? That flickering torch, your plans, your intellect, your understanding, your self-reliance may feel familiar, it may even be comfortable, but it can't compare to the sunlight of God's brilliance, guidance and glory.

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Matheson had every reason to cling to his small flame. He had lost his sight, he had lost the love of his life. He had every right to grip what little he had left. But instead he lets go. And that surrender doesn't end in darkness. That surrender doesn't end in darkness. It opens into a brighter, fairer day. For those of us who resist surrender because it feels like losing control. Remember God isn't asking you to walk blindfolded. He's asking you to trade your fragile, flickering flame for his blazing light. When we surrender our little light, we walk into his far greater one.

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Isaiah 42, verse 16, says and I will lead the blind in a way that they do not know, in paths that they have not known. I will guide them, I will turn the darkness before them into light. Proverbs 3, 5, and 6,. God tells us to trust him. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways, acknowledge him and he will make straight your paths. Psalm 119, 105 reminds us that God's word is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path. John 8, 12,. Jesus says I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness but have the light of life. So the invitation to this stanza is not just for those in sorrow or blindness. It's for anyone clinging to the illusion of control. Surrender means letting go of the illusion. The torch you're holding may feel safe, but his light is better.

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Let go and let the blaze of his presence be the light that leads you. This is the great paradox Of surrender by giving up control, we receive something brighter and fairer. What is borrowed Becomes Restored. What is dim Becomes radiant. He wrote this in five minutes. I just want to remind you of that. We're only halfway through Verse three.

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Oh joy that seekest me through pain. I cannot close my heart to thee. I trace the rainbow through the rain and feel the promise is not vain, that morn shall tearless be. The third stanza is one of the most emotionally raw and yet theologically rich portions of this hymn. It moves from surrendering life and limited understanding to something even deeper and more difficult surrendering our suffering. Oh joy that seekest me through pain. This is where the hymn turns from God's light to his joy. It's not the joy you get from being on vacation or heading into a relaxing weekend with the family. Matheson shows a joy that comes through pain, not despite pain, not after pain, in the midst of pain. As we go through it. Joy that seekest me through pain.

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The first line flips worldly logic on its head Again, setting up this paradoxical understanding of God's kingdom versus the kingdom of the world. Most of us seek joy by avoiding pain. But this line says no, no, joy seeks us through our pain. In verse 1, god is the love that holds us. In verse 2, god is the light that leads and guides us. And here, in verse 3, god is the joy that seeks us out in our trouble and our pain and through every trial and hardship. This is why James can tell us count it all joy, brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, and why Paul can tell the Corinthians that he is sorrowful yet always rejoicing. This is paradoxical joy, a joy that exists not instead of suffering, but a joy that exists within suffering. And he says I cannot close my heart to thee. Here Matheson admits I could try and shut joy out, I could harden myself against hope. I could try to, but I can't do it. Why? Because the love and light he described in the earlier stanzas have already softened his heart. His heart has been changed, he's been given a new heart. He can't unknow God's nearness, he can't hide from this joy that is seeking him out and he can't resist finding God in the midst of his pain. And when we find God, we find love and light and joy.

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Psalm 139, verse 7, where shall I go from your spirit or where shall I flee from your presence? Even in pain, god finds us. And in his pain he's saying look, it's joy that seeks me out. Even in pain, god finds him. And then he says this check this out. I trace the rainbow Through the rain. I would say this is probably the most famous and visually striking image in the entire hymn. The rainbow, of course, is a symbol of God's covenant promise In Genesis 9, 13,. I have set my bow in the cloud and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

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Matheson is drawing on that and saying even as the rain falls, I can trace the arc of God's faithfulness cutting through the storm. The word trace here is important. The word trace here is important. It suggests one really important thing you have to be looking for it, you have to be able to see it, to see the promise in the midst of the storm. And the only way you can see is if your eyes are open and you're looking for the promise. You see, sometimes pain numbs us to looking for where God is at work. We're just so numbed by pain that we just we kind of check out rain, through the storm, to glimpse the covenant.

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I think what he's saying here is you have to actually look, I have to see it, I have to trace it through the sky. I have to be willing to open my eyes and see where God is bringing his promise. Where is he bringing his hope throughout the storm? Because I can't shut out joy. It's going to find me either way. So I'm going to deliberately open my eyes and look for it. Where are you, god? Where are you working? I'm going to choose to see the rainbow, the promise of God, in the midst of the storm. It's an act of faith-filled perception choosing to see God's faithfulness in the midst of suffering.

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And then he says and feel the promise is not vain. He's saying I remember what you promised me, lord. Vain. He's saying I remember what you promised me, lord, and even though I'm hurting, even though I'm in the midst of this, I trust that your promise still holds. Not only am I choosing to look for the promise, I also know that the promise was not given in vain. I know that God is the joy that seeks me out, and he is the one that promises in the midst of my pain, in the midst of my suffering. He is going to be there and he is going to bring his joy into that situation.

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And as painful and as horrible and as trying as it may be, I know that God's promises are not made in vain, because the steadfast love of the Lord never ceases. His mercies never come to an end. They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness. Lamentations 3, 22 and 23. He is faithful. His promise is not just some sentimentality, it's a guarantee. Look at Romans 5, 3 through 5.

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But we rejoice in our suffering, knowing that suffering produces endurance and endurance produces character and character produces hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who he has given us. There's rejoicing in suffering because we know where it leads. It leads to seeing the rainbow. Through the rain. We see the promise. We have hope. Why? Because we know God's love will not let us go. What an amazing hymn. Oh, my goodness. Matheson's sufferings don't negate the promise. It drives him back to it.

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In my own life, my stuttering doesn't negate God's promise to me. There was a time when I thought it did. There was a time when I thought God messed up. That negates everything. Who cares? There was a time when I thought that it did, that it was bad. But here's the thing when I gave my life to Jesus Christ, when I really truly not when I walked down front and prayed a prayer, but when I truly gave my heart to Jesus Christ, having allowed Jesus to come in and be Lord and take over, he gave me a new heart, a changed heart, and now I see my weakness quote unquote as strength, the fact that I lead, worship and preach and teach his word daily and speak sometimes incessantly, as I've had it pointed out to me. At times there is a joy in the midst of the fear that I won't say it right or I'll get stuck, or I won't be able to express myself the way I want to, or I won't be able to say what I really want to say. And in those times I have to remind myself that I am fearfully and wonderfully made. And there is a joy of being completely satisfied with who I am satisfied with who I am stuttering, and all in Jesus Christ. That more shall tearless be. Here's the resolution Resurrection, hope.

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This last line of the third verse is eschatological. It points to the end, the final morning, the eternal dawn, when the night of weeping is over. It echoes Revelation 21, verse 4. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes and death shall be no more for the former. Things have passed away.

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Matheson surrenders his suffering because he knows it won't last forever, and he doesn't just hope that he knows it. This is a deep assurance in his bones. The tears may fall now, but the morning is coming and it will be tearless. This third stanza moves us to the very heart of Christian hope. It's one thing to surrender our lives and our plans, it's another to surrender our pain. But that's exactly what Matheson is daring us to do. The Bible doesn't tell us to deny our pain or hide it, but to surrender it to the only one who can bring us true joy. This is the kind of surrender that doesn't erase suffering. It transforms it. This hymn teaches us to trace something through the suffering a promise, a joy, a dawn that's still to come. This is resurrection thinking. It's a gospel logic.

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And then Matheson goes full resurrection mode. Goes full resurrection mode. O cross that liftest up my head. I dare not ask to fly from thee. I lay in dust, life's glory dead, and from the ground there blossoms red life that shall endless be. This is where Matheson takes his grief, his blindness, his loneliness, his dashed hopes and lays them at the foot of the cross. O cross that liftest up my head Right away. The paradox hits the cross, an instrument of shame, is the very thing that lifts our head, psalm 3.3,. But you, o Lord, are a shield about me, my glory and the lifter of my head. The cross, once a symbol of death and humiliation, is now the means of glory and restoration, and restoration In the upside-down kingdom of God the very place where Jesus was crushed is the place where we are raised.

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In John 3, 14 and 15, jesus says as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. The lifting of the cross is the lifting of our hope. I dare not ask to fly from thee. Matheson is saying I won't run from the cross, I won't reject the suffering it may bring. From the cross, I won't reject the suffering it may bring. This is profound. Most of us instinctively pray for relief, for escape, but here the cross is not just endured, it's embraced. The way of the cross is not the way around suffering again, but it's through it. It's just again, but it's through it. It's just saying I can endure. Jesus suffered and died on the cross for me. In this momentary suffering I'm going through, I can lift my head and look to Jesus. He is the author and perfecter of my faith. He is my example. He endured the cross. He gave his life for me. He is now interceding for me. I must deny myself, take up my cross and follow him. And that's the hinge dying to self. He says I lay in dust, life's glory dead. Matheson is laying down his dreams, his reputation, his strength, everything that once glittered in his eyes or in the eyes of the world. The glory of this world cannot and does not compare, and so he says I'm laying it dead, life's glory dead. Dead, life's glory dead. Paul writes in Philippians 3, 7 and 8, whatever gain I had, I counted as loss. For the sake of Christ, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus, my Lord. Remember the paradox To lay in dust life's glory dead is to recognize that nothing in us can stand before God. But everything surrendered can be resurrected in him and be resurrected in him. And from the ground there blooms red life that shall endless be. From death comes life. Now we've come full circle. I bring you back to, I give my life to thee. May richer, fuller be.

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Back to John 12, verse 24, reappears so clearly Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone, but if it dies, it bears much fruit. The red bloom is the blood of Christ, the fruit of sacrifice and the new life that comes through death. The fruit of sacrifice and the new life that comes through death. And we have life, and life everlasting because of Jesus's resurrection. I lift up my eyes to the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation, for by him all things were created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through him and for him, and he is before all things and in him all things hold together, and he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent, for in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross. I lift my eyes to Jesus.

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Surrendering my life means receiving a richer, fuller life. Surrendering my own understanding helps me see more clearly. Surrendering my suffering transforms it into fruitful joy. Surrendering to the cross brings eternal life. Death yields resurrection. This hymn takes us on a journey from surrendering our lives to releasing control, to tracing joy through pain and laying our glory in the dust. This hymn brings us again and again and again to paradoxes that only make sense in the light of what Jesus did on the cross. This is the upside down kingdom where losing is finding, dying is blooming and letting go is being held.

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I rest my weary soul in Thee. I give Thee back the life I owe. That in Thine ocean depths its flow May richer for the being, may richer for the being. O light that followest all my way. I yield my flickering torch to Thee. My heart restores its far away that in Thy sunshine's blazes they May brighter forever be Of joy that seekest me through pain. I cannot close my heart to Thee. I trace the rainbow through the rain and feel the promise is my faith that morn shall tearless be. Oh, cross that lifted up my head. I dare not ask to fly from Thee. I lay in dust, life's glory dead, and from the ground there blossoms red Life that shall endless be.

Speaker 1 44:12

That was A Love that Will Not Let Me Go, performed by Sandra McCracken from the 2010 Indelible Grace live album. The Hymn Sing live in Nashville. Chord charts and other resources are available through the Indelible Grace live album. The Hymn Sing live in Nashville. Chord charts and other resources are available through the Indelible Grace website, and the links to their hymn index can be found in the show notes for this episode.

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Five minutes he wrote that song in five minutes. He wrote that song in five minutes. What a hymn, what a hope. What are you holding that needs to be laid down? Where have you been trying to cling to control? What flickering torch are you still using to light your path Today? Let this hymn be your prayer path Today. Let this hymn be your prayer. Oh, love that will not let me go is more than just an amazing poem or an amazing hymn. It's a map for life in Christ's kingdom, a kingdom where we surrender what is fragile and receive what is eternal, a God whose love doesn't let go, a light that guides beyond our understanding, a joy that refuses to be shut out, and a cross that lifts our heads and leads us to everlasting life. And that's what we cling to even now.

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Speaker 1 48:36

Thank you again for listening and supporting us every week. Let me close us out in prayer every week. Let me close us out in prayer, lord, thank you for being that love that will not let us go, for being the light that guides our path and brings wisdom to discern the way we should go, and brings wisdom to discern the way we should go. Thank you for being our joy in suffering. Knowing you are always with us, right by our side, even when times are the hardest, is what gives us the strength to make it through. And finally, thank you for the cross. Thank you for not just leaving us in our sin, but providing a way to a richer, fuller life in your son.

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Jesus.

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Christ. It's in his name we pray all of these things. Amen. God bless you all and until next time, rest in the unfailing love that will not let you go. Have a great week, and I'll see you back here next week. We're out.