Blessed Be Your Name

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

**The following is an excerpt from Matt & Beth Redman's Book "Blessed Be Your Name"**

Chapter 5
You Give and Take Away

"Oh that God would bring us to the place that even when the familiar and the comfortable fall away from beneath us, still we are found with an undying song of trust flowing from our lips and from our lives"

(Page 76)

"The last section of the song "Blessed Be Your Name" comes straight from the story of Job.

In what has to be one of the most intense stories in the whole of Scripture, Job is stripped of everything precious to him and suffers much hardship.

Toward the beginning of his ordeal, he finds a way to the place of praise, falling to the ground in worship and crying out:

'The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away.

Blessed be the name of the Lord.' (Job 1:21, NASB)

This resounding line is a challenge for every worshipper.

A call to trust deeply in the sovereignty of God, shaping our lives based not on the temporary things of the earth but on the eternal King of heaven.

For devotion to stand the test of time and endure through every season of the soul, it cannot be based on the ever-changing circumstances of our lives-

it must have its foundation on the never-changing worth of God"

(page 77)

This book and the message spoken through it, has carried me at times through the mourning my heart still feels over the loss of my nephew. This song was sang at his funeral and since then has taken an entirely new and intimate meaning in my life and my walk with God. Not a day goes by where my heart isn't touched by his life and our loss. I still miss him with the same intensity that I did 7 months ago when God had called him home. I've stopped asking God to show me "why" He allowed this to happen. I don't believe that any answer He would give me could make sense to me in my earthly mind. I've started to ask Him for peace to rest in not knowing. All I know to do is to continue to pray for peace. Father, please hold me tight in Your arms so that I can find rest in You. In Jesus Name, Amen.

In His Grip!!