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This song.  It’s just what I needed to hear this morning.  My hubby and I have said so many times that if Shane and Shane brought out an album that just sings the phone book we would buy it in a heartbeat!  This song is so much of everything that I have been feeling lately.  I have been feeling torn down and tossed.  But even in those times I will praise my Jesus because He is all I need.  Everything that John Piper says it what my heart needed to hear.  Even though we go through trials and rough times… None of it is meaningless.  It all means something.  It all brings you closer to God, closer to the path that He wants you on.  He is refining you and molding you, constantly molding you.  This side of heaven will never be what we want it to be.  There will always be pain and suffering but God will always fight with us and for us.  And we will always be victorious in His Name.

I copied the lyrics of this song down because as you listen to them sing and hear John Piper speak you can read them and let it speak to your heart…

I come, God, I come
I return to the Lord
The one who’s broken
The one who’s torn me apart
You strike down to bind me up
You say you do it all in love
That I might know you in your suffering

Though you slay me
Yet I will praise you
Though you take from me
I will bless your name
Though you ruin me
Still I will worship
Sing a song to the one who’s all I need

My heart and flesh may fail
The earth below give way
But with my eyes, with my eyes I’ll see the Lord
Lifted high on that day
Behold, the Lamb that was slain
And I’ll know every tear was worth it all

Though you slay me
Yet I will praise you
Though you take from me
I will bless your name
Though you ruin me
Still I will worship
Sing a song to the one who’s all I need

Though tonight I’m crying out
Let this cup pass from me now
You’re still more than I need
You’re enough for me
You’re enough for me

[Not only is all your affliction momentary, not only is all your affliction light in comparison to eternity and the glory there. But all of it is totally meaningful. Every millisecond of your pain, from the fallen nature or fallen man, every millisecond of your misery in the path of obedience is producing a peculiar glory you will get because of that.

I don’t care if it was cancer or criticism. I don’t care if it was slander or sickness. It wasn’t meaningless. It’s doing something! It’s not meaningless. Of course you can’t see what it’s doing. Don’t look to what is seen.

When your mom dies, when your kid dies, when you’ve got cancer at 40, when a car careens into the sidewalk and takes her out, don’t say, “That’s meaningless!” It’s not. It’s working for you an eternal weight of glory.

Therefore, therefore, do not lose heart. But take these truths and day by day focus on them. Preach them to yourself every morning. Get alone with God and preach his word into your mind until your heart sings with confidence that you are new and cared for.]

Though you slay me
Yet I will praise you
Though you take from me
I will bless your name
Though you ruin me
Still I will worship
Sing a song to the one who’s all I need
Sing a song to the one who’s all I need

If you would like to hear the sermon by John Piper… please feel free to listen and let God speak!

http://www.desiringgod.org/conference-messages/do-not-lose-heart