Hold You Up

Matthew West

from the album Hold You Up EP

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Love is a blessing
Love is a vow
Love is the reason we're standing here now

The future before us
Tomorrow's untold
But love is the promise that whatever it holds

Chorus:
Yes, I will hold you
I will hold you up
I will hold you
I will hold you up

So give me your bad days
Give me your fear
Bring all your burdens
Just lay them down here

Cuz' I'm not gonna leave you
When your world becomes war
I'm standing in the trenches because you're worth fighting for

Chorus:
Yes, I will hold you
I will hold you up
I will hold you
I will hold you up

And I will hold you up in victory
Watch your light outshine the stars
And when you're breaking down and weary, just be weary in my arms

There will be trials
There will be tests
As hard as I'm tryin' for you, I'm human at best
But baby don't worry
If you should start to fall
Just cling to the one love that's bigger than us all

Chorus:
He will hold you
He will hold you up
I know that he will hold you yeah
He will hold you
He will hold you up

He will hold you, I know, I know, I know
He will hold you up

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Inspired by the 2010 K-LOVE Next Great Love Song winning story submitted by Ann Mathews from Pennsylvania:

"I met Jim when I was fourteen. I was working at a Dairy Mart and he stepped out of his car looking very handsome, dressed in full Fire Police uniform (he has been a volunteer firefighter for 37 years). I took one look and said, 'I'm going to marry that man someday.'

Four years of chocolate milkshakes later he asked me out and we were married 3 1/2 years later. That was 25 years ago and he still makes my heart go crazy when he walks into a room! The true love test came when at 27 I was diagnosed with very aggressive breast cancer and given two months to live. I watched Jim suffer more than I could've imagined...he felt so helpless. I kept telling him, God is way bigger than this and I was right!

But Jim's true love poured out to me during that time. He was the one who spent months holding my bald head and butchered body over a bucket when I was so sick I couldn't hold it up myself, all the while stroking my cheek and telling me how beautiful I was. Thirty-three surgeries and almost twenty years later he is still holding me up!

Jim stood by my side as I honored God's miracle by dedicating my life to helping children, having 2 biological, 23 foster and 4 adoptions. He is an amazing father and husband, and Christ's love shines through him every day!"