How May I Bless Your Heart?...

"Knees to the Earth" by Watermark

Wonderful Savior
My heart belongs to Thee
I will remember always the blood You shed for me
Wonderful Savior
My heart will know Your worth
So I will embrace You always as I walk this earth

Be blessed, be loved, be lifted high
Be treasured here
Be glorified
I owe my life to You my Lord
Here I am

Beautiful Jesus
How may I bless Your heart?
Knees to the earth I bow down to everything You are
Beautiful Jesus
You are my only worth
So let me embrace You always as I walk this earth


Ok, so I love stargazing! I really do. Theres just something about being outside on a clear night looking up at the stars that makes you feel a certain closeness to our Father. Seeing His creation and knowing that our God loves US so much more than any of His other creation. That the Maker of the stars and moon knows OUR names, cares about US, and has a plan for OUR lives!!! That just totally blows me away!! For real!! I mean, whoever said that God is just out there and doesn't interact in our lives obviously doesn't know MY God!

Anyways, so me and Sam frequently go out to this spot on the west side (its actually a church parking lot) that has a good view of the stars. We roll down the windows, crank up the pod, climb onto the hood and pretty much just worship. Tonight we felt the need to take Josh to our spot (which turned out to be a very beneficial thing...who knew the north star was in the north?). While listening to the song above, "Knees to the Earth," (which is altogether amazing) a certain part stuck out to me>> "How may I bless Your name?" That question just echoed in my head...and it still does. How the heck am I--stupid, challenged, sinful me--suppose to BLESS God?!? What does it look like for me to bless God? Is it even possible for God, the Creator of everything, to be blessed by a me, a mere human?

Ok, so after throwing out the questions that were floating in my head, I decided to look up what the word "bless" actually meant. According to dictionary. com, "bless" means a number of things; however, I choose to only put one meaning on here. 1>> To honor as holy; glorify. At first thought, I was like, "Thats it? To glorify?" Then, I started thinking about what that really meant, and the words "Thats it?" left because that includes so much. To bless, glorify, honor as holy....all of those our God deserves and so, so much more. How can we do this? I'll share with you what God shared with me on how to bless Him:

Psalm 100 NASB
Shout joyfully to the Lord, all the earth,
Serve the Lord with gladness;
Come before Him with joyful singing.
Know that the Lord Himself is God;
It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves;
We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.
Enter His gates with thanksgiving
And His courts with praise.
Give thanks to Him, bless His name.
For the Lord is good;
His lovingkindness is everlasting
And His faithfulness to all generations.

Thats it. That is how we can bless God. Yeah, its not easy. But neither was dying on a cross. So, lets try to always shout joyfully to God, serve Him with gladness, come before Him singing, and enter His presence with thanksgiving and praise. You know, I love it when God teaches me things like this right after I've totally NOT been doing that. So, I've been sick the last 5 days or so, and I haven't been doing those things. I've totally not been blessing God. He like totally just gently nudged my heart and was like "Hey, are you reading what you're typing?" I love it when He points these things out. I'm constantly being refined, and let me tell you, its a LONG process.

Thank You God for revealing the desires of Your heart through Your Word!!