It is easy to praise God on the mountaintops, but hard to praise God in the valleys sometimes. Wherever you are on that journey, His name is always good and we can cling to His name because He is faithful and true always. He cannot deny His character so that is an anchor for our hope that makes us secure.
I know, for me, that one thing that helps is one of the blessings He gives us as a resource...His people. I am blessed with sweet community; but right now I'm just talking about the congregation at church (the saints). In some of my deepest valleys, when the urge to isolate sounds so much easier than having to rewalk through the struggle you are in, just being at church during praise and worship has been a game changer mentally.
I remember going to church one Sunday morning with one of my children beside me who was walking through a valley (and when your child is in the valley, you are right beside them aching in such a way that your heart physically hurts) and I couldn't even stand during praise and worship. I was tired and wounded. As the worship team sang, I just sat and let God's Words in song pour over me from them and from the congregation. The people of God lifting me up without their even knowing as their songs poured over me. Eventually your heart is attuned again to God's and you are able to say, whatever the circumstance, Blessed be Your name"
Blessed Be Your Name
In the land that is plentiful
Where Your streams of abundance flow
Blessed be Your name
In the land that is plentiful
Where Your streams of abundance flow
Blessed be Your name
Blessed Be Your name
When I'm found in the desert place
Though I walk through the wilderness
Blessed Be Your name
When I'm found in the desert place
Though I walk through the wilderness
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
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
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name
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
When the sun's shining down on me
When the world's 'all as it should be'
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be Your name
On the road marked with suffering
Though there's pain in the offering
Blessed be Your name
On the road marked with suffering
Though there's pain in the offering
Blessed be Your name
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