Count Your Blessings, Name Them One By One.

Count Your Blessings

Just as I have said in an earlier post about this song sometimes a song just has impact and this one continues to linger with me as I live in a world of turmoil. We all need to Count our Blessings. So bear with me as I explore this song once again.

Count Your Blessing

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I was blind, now I’m seeing in color

I was dead, now I’m living forever

I had failed, but you were my redeemer

I’ve been blessed beyond all measure

Blessed

If there is one thing I am fully aware of is that I am blessed. God has given me the time to focus on Him and all he has provided for me. “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.” James 1:17. God is Good, and through all his blessings for me he still is asking me to really look and appreciate all that is around me. Maybe the words “I was blind and now I see in color” reflect one being saved, for me I really see the colors of God’s world. I see what is important. I am living and want to continue to live both here and forever with you. “Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you,” 1 Peter 5:6.

Treasure

I was lost, now I’m found by the father

I’ve been changed from a ruin to treasure

I’ve been given a hope and a future

I’ve been blessed beyond all measure

I am counting every blessing, counting every blessing

Letting go and trusting when I cannot see

I am counting every blessing, counting every blessing

Surely every season you are good to me

Oh, you are good to me

God is showing me the treasures he has stored up for me. “Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.” Luke 12:33. I want to focus more on trying to live out this verse. How do I live for God in order to experience God more and have less to distract me from His Grace and Glory all around me. He is allowing me to taste heaven here on earth, and I am thirsty for more. I want to experience more of his beauty and grace. I want to not just count my blessing but enjoy my blessings. Luke 12:34 states it best, “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”

Strength

You were there in the valley of shadows

You were there in the depth of my sorrows

You’re my strength, my hope for tomorrow

I’ve been blessed beyond all measure

I am counting every blessing, counting every blessing

Letting go and trusting when I cannot see

I am counting every blessing, counting every blessing

Surely every season you are good to me

Oh, you are good to me

I have walked through valleys and across mountain tops and I know that my life will be filled with both. Yet, I have hope in God’s strength, “I can do all things through him who strengthens me.” Philippians 4:13. As I walk through the life God is giving me and count the many blessings, I know that I continue to need his strength to make decisions to walk his path. I know that the only strength I can rely on is that which the Lord provides. Listening to this song, I feel my Lord’s strength which I will need and promised to me in 1 Chronicles 16:11, “Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!”

Surely your goodness pursues me

Surely your heart is still for me

I will remember your mercies all my days

Through every storm and gale

Closing Verse: “But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.” Isaiah 40:31.

Challenge: Count Your Blessings

Songwriters: Gareth Gilkeson / Chris Llewellyn / Bridget Herron / Ali Gilkeson / Will Herron / Steve Mitchell / Patrick Thompson

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…and to Walk Humbly with Your God…Micah 6:8