A song has recently been introduced into the worship music repertoire at Christ Community: 10,000 Reasons by Matt Redman . Beautiful song. Thoughtfully written. Lyrically solid. Theologically solid. We sang it today and when we got to the line about "For all Your goodness, I will keep on singing... 10,000 reasons for my heart to find." My first thought was "Lord, if I only had the one- Your death on the Cross... I would still sing your praises till I'm hoarse..." Then our worship leader prayed that we indeed could find 10,000 reasons to worship Him... and indeed, I could...
My desire to lift Him up in worship does not conceal the fact that I have issues to deal with... in fact, my coming to the altar to worship Him often exposes my weaknesses and failings. I don't sing because I'm perfect. I sing because I am redeemed. I sing because I am deeply loved... loved enough for Him to come down to the mud and mire and put me on solid ground.
I am seriously thinking of putting down all the reasons He's given to me... I would love to see the number soar to 10,000... hopefully, thinking of your 10,000 reasons will take you to a place to soul searching for Him to pull out another root of fill-in-the-blank so that we are no longer entangled with the bondage of ourselves.... so then you can have 10,001 reasons to sing "for all Your goodness."
Buffy, good thoughts. We SO often overlook that which is right in front of us and which was most costly for Him because we forget the cost of our sin.
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