Blessed Be Your Name

We learned a new song in church recently. It is based on what Job says after loosing everything he had. It says:

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,
And 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.

I frequently think about my life and am overwhelmed with all that God has blessed me. I love my life. I'm actually tempted to be so taken with the gifts God has given me that I get distracted from the God that gave them.

That's why I admire Job's example. He lost it all. When it all was striped away, his love for and trust in the God that gave it all remained and was his anchor. It seems like every day I have to remind myself to loosen my grip on the blessings and cling more closely to the blesser. They might be gone in an instant, but He will always be there.