Blessings by Laura Story from Blessings

How does one define blessings in life? Do we define it by material blessings? emotional blessings? social blessings? Since when in the Bible did God define it only as such?

Laura Story comes out with a good song in "Blessings" both in lyrics and in the music. Her point is what do you consider as blessings in life. What if God sends us problems and trials as a way for us to come to Him, as way to let us rely on Him and Him alone. Just like little flowers needs both sunshine and rain to grow so does God use both blessings and "blessings in disguise" in our lives.

Sadly, our natural response to these tests is doubt and to some even hatred towards God! Some people even bargain with God that they would believe Him only if God would give them a smooth sailing life. We are reminded by this song that God is in control always.

Here are the lyrics to the song:

We pray for blessings
We pray for peace
Comfort for family, protection while we sleep
We pray for healing, for prosperity
We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering
All the while, You hear each spoken need
Yet love us way too much to give us lesser things

'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near
What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

We pray for wisdom
Your voice to hear
And we cry in anger when we cannot feel You near
We doubt Your goodness, we doubt Your love
As if every promise from Your Word is not enough
All the while, You hear each desperate plea
And long that we'd have faith to believe

'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near
And what if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

When friends betray us
When darkness seems to win
We know the pain reminds this heart
That this is not, this is not our home
It's not our home

'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
And what if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near
What if my greatest disappointments
Or the aching(s) of this life
Is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can’t satisfy
And what if trials of this life
The rain, the storms, the hardest nights
Are Your mercies in disguise


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Count you blessings in life!