Blessed be Your name

this is specially for terence, huiling and all from cyan-chocolate..

i know the Lord is with me.. thank you for keeping me in your thoughts.. today's worship was wonderful.. i had to run off, lots to catch up for my paper i'm having tomorrow so didn't stay for the sermon.. but yah... the worship this morning touched my heart... been awhile since i experienced the intensed presence of the Lord like what i went through the same time last year.. what can i say, God's amazing in the way He moves.. i don't know how to explain this.. i'm pretty certain that many would have experienced what i did this morning in the context of their own situations..

this is the first time i heard this song "blessed be the name" but the lyrics touched me very deeply.. He gives and takes away.. in a time of sadness, confusion and even judgements, it's only through God that i may receive the strength to overcome what i need to... life is interesting.. people are difficult to understand... in a short summary of reflection... i think about when do i seek the Lord most..

when my life seems too comfortable, too complacent.. i seek Him because it seems as if besides God, there is nothing else i can want... God becomes the only unreachable but most desirable to fulfill my life..

when i go through trials and challenges, i seek Him for courage, strength, wisdom and guidance, for when i am weak, and the path gets difficult, it's most sensitive to experience the wonders of God.. i question why things were so, and why did i have to face it.. but i know it was all for a cause, His cause.. no matter what unveils eventually, it's according to His plan and He knows the steps i will take and choices i will make..

today, i feel strengthened... faith built... my heart still weak over some stuff, but i know, I will never be alone... God knows best my heart and my thoughts as He knows everyone of us..

Blessed Be Your Name
In the land that is plentiful
Where Your streams of abundance flow

When I'm found in the desert place
Though I walk through the wilderness

When the sun's shining down on me
When the world's 'all as it should be'

On the road marked with suffering
Though there's pain in the offering

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

You give and take away
You give and take away
My heart will choose to sayLord, blessed be Your name