“Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.” Psalm 31:5 · KJV
Psalm 31:5 gives the household the line the Lord Jesus himself would later quote from the cross: Into thine hand I commit my spirit. It is the most trusting sentence any tired heart has ever prayed — the surrender of what we cannot hold into hands we cannot see, and yet have proved themselves faithful in every generation before us.
“Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.” Psalm 31:5 · KJV
Companion passages: Luke 23:46 ("Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit") · 1 Peter 4:19 ("commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing") · 2 Timothy 1:12 ("he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him") · Psalm 37:5 ("Commit thy way unto the Lord").
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Committing is not resigning. To commit into the Father's hand is not to give up on the day but to place the day into stronger keeping. The hymn asks the household to loosen its grip on what cannot be held tightly anyway — the trembling hours, the unfinished selves, the loved and lost — and to trust the hand that has redeemed them with a blood no shining coin could weigh.
O God of truth, into thy hand we commit this household. The morning and the evening and the night; the loved and the lost; the trembling and the small — receive them, and keep them, and love them. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
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Read Psalm 31:5 aloud before breakfast. Sing Verse 1. Each household member names one thing they wish to commit into the Father's hand today.
Sing the Bridge slowly as the last thing before sleep. Let 'Where love is never sleeping' be the last line the house hears.
Show the children how to open and close their hand. Read the verse. Ask them: what will you give to the Father today? Sing Verse 3 and let them fold their own hand as they sing.