Blessed Be Your Name AG 2 - G Shapes

AG 2 - G Shapes

Add To

Rehearsal Player

Play the song with your instrument loud in the mix

Full Mix
Acoustic
Acoustic Guitar
Acoustic Guitar 2 EASY
Electric
Electric Guitar
Electric Guitar 2
Bass
Keys
Vocals
High Harmony
Low Harmony
Melody
Put Capo on Fret:
Capo
Play in these Chord Shapes

Intro

B F# G#m E
                                                                               
B F#/A# G#m F# E
                                                                                                        

Verse 1

B F# G#m E
    Blessed   be Your name    in the   land that is   plentiful
B F#
    Where Your   streams of a bundance flow    
G#m E
    Bles sed be Your name          
B F#
    Blessed   be Your name
G#m E
    When I'm   found in the   desert place
B F#
    Though I   walk through the   wilderness    
G#m E
    Bles sed be Your name          

Pre-Chorus

B F# G#m E
    Every blessing   You pour out    I'll      turn back to   praise
B F# G#m E
    When the darkness   closes in Lord        still I will   say

Chorus

B F#
Blessed be the   name of the Lor d
G#m E
Blessed be Your n ame                  
B F#
Blessed be the   name of the Lor d
G#m F# E
Blessed be Your   glo   -     rious nam e

Verse 2

B F#
    Blessed   be Your name
G#m E
    When the   sun's shining   down on me
B F#
    When the   world's all as   it should be
G#m E
    Bles sed be Your name          
B F#
    Blessed   be Your name
G#m E
    On the   road marked with   suffering
B F#
    Though there's   pain in the   offering
G#m E
    Bles sed be Your name          

Pre-Chorus

B F# G#m E
    Every blessing   You pour out    I'll      turn back to   praise
B F# G#m E
    When the darkness   closes in Lord        still I will   say

Chorus

B F#
Blessed be the   name of the Lor d
G#m E
Blessed be Your n ame                  
B F#
Blessed be the   name of the Lor d
G#m F# E
Blessed be Your   glo   -     rious nam e

Bridge

B F# G#m E
You   give and take a way You   give and take a way
B F# G#m E
Our   heart will choose to s ay  Lord   blessed be Your na me
B C#m B/D# E
You   give and take a way You   give and take a way
B C#m B/D# E
Our   heart will choose to s ay   Lord   blessed be Your   name

Chorus (2X)

B F#
Blessed be the   name of the Lor d
G#m E
Blessed be Your n ame                  
B F#
Blessed be the   name of the Lor d
G#m F# E E
Blessed be Your   glo   -     rious nam e                 

Bridge

B F# G#m E
You   give and take a way You   give and take a way
B F# G#m E
My   heart will choose to   say     blessed be Your n ame

Devotional

Blessed Be Your Name

Play the devotional:
LISTEN WITH SONG
LISTEN WITHOUT SONG

“The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.” (Job 1:21)

Worship is not just for our good days, but for all our days, including our very worst. Especially our worst days.

The book of Job in the Old Testament gives us a picture of the beauty and rightness of worshiping God in the hardest of times. It’s one of the most important stories in the Bible to prepare us for suffering — and where to turn to in life’s greatest pains.

Empty Hands, Lifted to God

Job was a righteous man, “blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil” (Job 1:1). One of the most important lessons is that, in this fallen world, there’s no necessary correlation between suffering and the sin of the sufferer. When tragedy comes our way, we need not assume that it’s punishment for some specific sin.

Job was the father of seven sons and three daughters, and was abundantly wealthy, and in one day, he lost it all. And when he heard the final report — not just that his great possessions had been stolen and destroyed, but now that his sons and daughters were dead — what did Job do? He “tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped” (Job 1:20).

It is the worst news imaginable, coming at the end of successive announcements of escalating loss, and Job worships. His hands now empty, he lifts them to God, and says,

Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord. (Job 1:21)

Whatever Satan’s role has been in the destruction of Job’s possessions and the death of his children, Job acknowledges that the ultimate authority is God. Satan cannot wreak any havoc and cause any pain apart from God’s sovereignty and will.

Wail and Worship

In the moment, and for weeks, even years, Job doesn’t know what God’s up to in such horrific tragedy. But he knows this: God is in control, and he has his loving purposes, often deeply hidden from us. And so these great losses become not only an occasion to mourn and wail, but also to worship — to turn in our confusion and pain to a God whose ways are higher than our ways and whose thoughts are higher than our thoughts (Isaiah 55:9).

Life’s greatest pains and sufferings, then, become life’s most important reminders to worship. To acknowledge that we are not God, to confess that this tragedy is beyond our will and wisdom, to humble ourselves before God’s mighty hand as the one who is able to show us mercy and compassion.

He Gives and Takes Away

This doesn’t mean it’s easy, or that healing comes quickly. Far from it. Job spends 40 chapters wrestling with his friends, even challenging God, over what he is doing in the tragedy. But in the end, Job ends up again in a posture of worship, returning to his initial instinct, which was so deeply appropriate. In remaining steadfast in our worship to God, in the best days and worst days, we see “the purpose of the Lord, and how the Lord is compassionate and merciful” (James 5:11).

And so we sing, “Blessed Be the Name of the Lord,” not only when there is plenty and abundance, but when we find ourselves in life’s deserts and wildernesses. When he pours out blessing, we worship. And when the darkness closes in, we worship. When the sun’s shining down, and when the road is marked with suffering and pain, we say with Job, “The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord” (Job 1:21).