“Blessed be Your name, in the land that is plentiful. Where Your steams of abundance flow, blessed be Your name!”
“When I’m found in the dessert place. Though I walk through the wilderness, blessed be Your name!”
“Blessed be Your name, on the road marked with suffering. When there’s pain in the offering, blessed be Your name!”
“Every blessing Your pour out I’ll, turn back to praise! When the darkness closes in Lord, still I will sing..”
“Blessed be the name of the Lord! Blessed be Your name! Blessed be the name of the Lord! Blessed be Your glorious name!”
“Blessed be Your name, on the road marked with suffering. When there’s pain in the offering, blessed be Your name!”
"Blessed be Your name, when the sun’s shining down on me! When the world’s all as it should be, blessed be Your name!”
“Blessed be Your name, on the road marked with suffering. When there’s pain in the offering, blessed be Your name!”
“You give and take away, You give and take away. My heart will choose to say, ‘Lord blessed be Your name!’”
-Kathryn Scott, "Blessed be Your name”
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Tonight that is the cry of my heart as I think about all that I have been through and am going through. All the joys and sorrows of life and death we face in this world, and still He has been enough to us and given us enough for our hearts to sing that song. We go through wildernesses and valleys of abundance on a regular basis, and still He does not fail us! We fail Him, we turn from Him, we abandon Him, and still He seeks to woo us and win us back to Him. In moments of deepest revolt and sin He is there, pleading with us to turn from those things and come back to Him.
We in our sinful nature stumble and fall daily, yet He never fails to lift us up, free us from the chains of sin, and set our feet upon a rock. In Him and through His resurrection and abundant mercy, we are forever free from sin. Free to live eternity with our Heavenly Father in the place that He has prepared for us.
Because of this, I find that I owe a lifetime of praise and gratitude to the One who has set me free. As I sit here and ponder this, my hear is filled with praise for my God. My heart has indeed learned to bless His name. Now this song has a new meaning for me. It is no longer just a song to me, it has become my heart’s cry, an eternal reminder to me that no matter what happens I need to be praising and blessing my Maker. It has become the anthem of my relationship with my Father.
“For the glory of God!”
“I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth” Psalm 34:1
"….blessed be your glorious name, and may it be exalted above all blessing and praise!” Nehemiah 9:5
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