Blessed Be Your Name-by Matt Redman
album: Where Angels Fear To Tread (2002)- - -
Blessed Be Your Name
In the land that is plentiful
Where Your streams of abundance flow
Blessed be Your name
Blessed Be Your name
When I'm found in the desert place
Though I walk through the wilderness
Blessed Be Your name
Every blessing You pour out
I'll turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord
Still I will say
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
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
Though there's pain in the offering
Blessed be Your name
Every blessing You pour out
I'll turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord
Still I will say
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 the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name
You give and take away
You give and take away
My heart will choose to say
Lord, blessed be Your name
This song says it all. Blessed be YOUR name Lord, even when life sucks. I have been reading some magazines- REAL SIMPLE and READER'S DIGEST for example, and am not surprised at all the "Quick Fixes" for the new year. None of them are new- how to lose weight, how to clean your house, how to be happy. Yes, that's it people- magazines are claiming they know how to make you happy. If you only do these things:
" If you don't talk about what your husband did to make you mad until you are home at the end of the day, THEN it will go away because you forgot... One way to have a happy marriage."
"Try to focus on the positive."
"Drink more wine. It's good for you."
"Friday night dates without the kids are a must, that way you have time to be with your spouse and talk about something other than kids or work. This will make you happier."
Ok, ok. So not all of these are necessarily BAD... But I don't really think any of them are going to make us eternally happy. No one said this life was going to be easy, and I would suggest that anyone who is searching for some earthly "fix" is going to be quite disappointed. The thing is... Jesus is supposed to be our "all and all" HE is supposed to make us happy. But "happy" seems like a term worth defining because I don't think happiness lies in "feeling good". Sure it helps us to feel happy, like when someone we love gives us flowers, or says something nice to us... But being truly happy, I believe, we have to have our ultimate trust, faith, hope in Jesus. Because just as the song says, Blessed be Your name, when I walk in the wilderness, or when the sun is shining on me... Or when it's just plain hard. Weakness is not desirable. Praising Jesus when we hurt, are lonely, or angry is not desirable, at least not to me. but I find that when I do give it up, and praise him in the good times and the bad times- it is then that I feel "happy". Kind of ironic, but so so sweet.
I suppose none of this is really new, or even profound, but I needed to remind myself of my need for my savior. And that being happy does not come from a diet, it comes from being in relationship with Jesus, the ultimate friend and healer. The heavenly "fix".
" If you don't talk about what your husband did to make you mad until you are home at the end of the day, THEN it will go away because you forgot... One way to have a happy marriage."
"Try to focus on the positive."
"Drink more wine. It's good for you."
"Friday night dates without the kids are a must, that way you have time to be with your spouse and talk about something other than kids or work. This will make you happier."
Ok, ok. So not all of these are necessarily BAD... But I don't really think any of them are going to make us eternally happy. No one said this life was going to be easy, and I would suggest that anyone who is searching for some earthly "fix" is going to be quite disappointed. The thing is... Jesus is supposed to be our "all and all" HE is supposed to make us happy. But "happy" seems like a term worth defining because I don't think happiness lies in "feeling good". Sure it helps us to feel happy, like when someone we love gives us flowers, or says something nice to us... But being truly happy, I believe, we have to have our ultimate trust, faith, hope in Jesus. Because just as the song says, Blessed be Your name, when I walk in the wilderness, or when the sun is shining on me... Or when it's just plain hard. Weakness is not desirable. Praising Jesus when we hurt, are lonely, or angry is not desirable, at least not to me. but I find that when I do give it up, and praise him in the good times and the bad times- it is then that I feel "happy". Kind of ironic, but so so sweet.
I suppose none of this is really new, or even profound, but I needed to remind myself of my need for my savior. And that being happy does not come from a diet, it comes from being in relationship with Jesus, the ultimate friend and healer. The heavenly "fix".
