Day 7: 10,000 Reasons

This has been one of my favorite songs to sing in church over the past year.  I took it with me to camp this past summer and as a staff/praise band, we arranged it into an acoustic set with 3 guitars, a piano, a djembe (a drum) and violin.  When sung, it feels like singing a prayer.  It has this beautiful blend of old church music and new church music.
One of my favorite parts of 10,000 Reasons is this line, which is taken directly from scripture:

You're rich in love and you're slow to anger,

Your name is great and your heart is kind.

For all your goodness I will keep on singing,

10,000 reasons for my heart to find.

I love that passage because it illuminates the character of God's heart.  Sometimes I have to remind myself that the Creator of hearts - the one beating in my chest that pumps blood, and feels things - has a heart Himself.  He truly knows my heart, because He has one Himself.   I cannot think of a quality I would rather have myself, or to find in a friend, than someone who is so patient, and abounding in love.  That is something I cherish about who God is - His patience.  He will wait on me when I am trying to figure things out, and He will wait with love and grace.  

The number 10,000 appears in another familiar song - Amazing Grace.  We sing, "When we've been here 10,000 years, bright shining as the sun, we've no less days to sing God's praise, then when we first begun."  10,000 is not the biggest number I know, but it can't be underestimated.  When Amazing Grace was written, the writer probably couldn't see 200 years into the future.  I can't sit and count to 10,000; I get side-tracked.  The point is, it is a big number.  There are more than 10,000 reasons to praise God.  I think with each day, we have at least one reason, and that is all we need.

Something that I noticed this morning that I thought was really cool was that when I searched Matt Redman's video on youtube, and started typing in 10,000..."10,000 Reasons" was the first suggestion to pop up.  With my little knowledge of the internet, I know that the more frequently things are searched, the sooner they pop up.  10,000 Reasons came up first.  Not 10,000 giggling babies; not 10,000 coke bottles exploding.  This is what people are looking for, listening to.
~SP