The album version of "Yours" received a positive reception from critics and Chapman has performed the song on his concert tours.
The radio version of the song has been included on several compilation albums and peaked inside the top ten on the US Billboard Hot Christian Songs and Hot Christian AC charts; it also topped the Radio & Records Soft AC/INSPO chart, becoming Chapman's 45th career number-one single.
[5] The radio edit of the song has a length of four minutes and fifty seconds[6] and contains a new verse (I’ve walked the valley of death’s shadow/So deep and dark that I could barely breathe/I’ve had to let go of more than I could bear/And questioned everything that I believe/But still even here/in this great darkness/A comfort and hope come breaking through/As I can say in life or death/God we belong to you) which Chapman wrote in the weeks following the death of his daughter Maria,[2] who had died on May 21, 2008, after having been accidentally hit by a car driven by her brother.
John DiBiase of Jesus Freak Hideout commented that the song is "a simplistic but effective admission of God's omnipotence".
[8] Russ Breimeier of Christianity Today compared it to Chapman's "big pop anthems like 'Speechless' of 'For the Sake of the Call'", regarding the song as "a personable yet worshipful declaration of God's dominion over the earth".
[3] Deborah Evans-Price of CCM Magazine regarded the song as a "stirring reminder of God's power and presence in every situation".
At a concert on April 4, 2009, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Chapman performed the song as the second of his opening setlist.
[21][22] At a concert on November 21, 2010, in Joppa, Maryland, Chapman performed "Yours" after telling the audience the story of how he was inspired to write the song; he also included the additional verse he wrote following the death of his daughter.