MY HEART IS FILLED WITH THANKFULNESS
WORDS AND MUSIC BY KEITH GETTY & STUART TOWNEND
© 2003 THANKYOU MUSIC
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My heart is filled with thankfulness
To Him who bore my pain;
Who plumbed the depths of my disgrace
And gave me life again;
Who crushed my curse of sinfulness
And clothed me in His light
And wrote His law of righteousness
With pow’r upon my heart.
My heart is filled with thankfulness
To Him who walks beside;
Who floods my weaknesses with strength
And causes fears to fly;
Whose ev’ry promise is enough
For ev’ry step I take,
Sustaining me with arms of love
And crowning me with grace.
My heart is filled with thankfulness
To Him who reigns above,
Whose wisdom is my perfect peace,
Whose ev’ry thought is love.
For ev’ry day I have on earth
Is given by the King;
So I will give my life, my all,
To love and follow Him.
Filling Our Hearts
There's a reason Ephesians 5 exhorts us to give thanks immediately after we're told to sing hymns. Because you can't ever sing a hymn the way God wants you to sing it if you're not thankful first.
When your heart is filled with thankfulness, amazing things start to happen. You'll discover that . . .
- You're not bitter. You can't be bitter and thankful at the same time. It doesn't work!
- You're not self-centered. You're focusing on the Giver of all good things -- physical and spiritual. Especially those spiritual gifts (as our hymn highlights for us).
- You're focusing on what you do have rather than what you don't have. This breeds spiritual contentment!
- Your heart settles into that peaceful place where you are closest to God. Without discontentment or covetousness or other distractions in our way, we're free to lean in to Him and hear what He has said, receive what He has given and respond to His magnificent love with our own feeble -- yet sincere -- love.
True, gratitude does a world of good for us on a human, personal level but it does something even greater on a spiritual level. It moves our hearts where they need to be to worship God wholeheartedly.