I was practising the postlude for tomorrow's service. I chose it because its a song i especially like, because the lyrics speak of what i feel in my heart, and is a very good reminder to me. So i thought i'll post it up here for everyone to see, hopefully when the postlude is played tomorrow during the service, you guys will think of the lyrics, and i hope it will all be our prayer as we walk together with God.

My Tribute (To God be the Glory)
How can I say thanks for the things You have done for me,
Things so undeserved, Yet You give to prove Your love for me,
The voices of a million angels, Could not express my gratitude,
All that I am, and ever hope to be, I owe it all to Thee.

To God be the glory,
To God be the glory,
To God be the glory, For the things He has done,
With His blood He has saved me,
With His power He has raised me,
To God be the glory, For the things he has done.

Just let me live my life, Let it be pleasing Lord to Thee,
And should I gain any praise, Let it go to Calvary.


To God be the glory,
To God be the glory,
To God be the glory, For the things He has done,
With His blood He has saved me,
With His power He has raised me,
To God be the glory, For the things He has done.

The words in italic really spoke to me. The song is sort of like a personal prayer, when im playing it.

"All that i have and ever hope to be, i owe it all to Thee... ... Just let me live my life, Let it be pleasing, Lord, to Thee, and should i gain any praise, let it go to Calvary."
This is a very powerful reminder to me that everything i have came from God. That truly, all that i ever have and hope to be, i owe it all to Him. We don't deserve any praise for the things we have done, because God deserves all the glory.

So many times i have done something really difficult, that i thought was not possible for me to do, and after doing it i felt happy that i managed to pull it off. When we think that we have achieved things by our own strength, it is because it was God who gave us the strength to achieve, and not by our own means. And if we should gain any praise, any achievements, we should all give it to God, to Jesus, without whom we would be nothing at all.

And the phrase.. "i owe it all to Thee" really reminds me to thank God for what i have, because everything i have came from his. Like this week i was really reminded of how blessed i really am when i see my grandmother's new domestic helper who had to leave her children behind in her homeland and come to Singapore to work so that she might have enough money to send her children to school. Another of my aunts have a domestic helper who left Philippines right after her youngest child was born to come to Singapore to work, and she has already been here twenty years. She didnt have the chance or choice to watch her own child grow up, but in those years her child was growing up, she was looking after someone else's child so that her family may have a better life.

Often so many things we have around us, we take for granted. Perhaps its time for us to see and count God's blessings in the little little things we have around us and start to give Him the thanks that only He deserves. Let us start by thinking something to thank Him for at the end of every day, before we turn in for the day.


PS: Heres the song that i mentioned, sung by a little boy from the Philippines. Its quite touching that a young boy could sing it with such emotion. Hope you guys like it.