10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord)
| "10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord)" | |
|---|---|
| Song by Matt Redman | |
| from the album 10,000 Reasons | |
| Released | 2012 |
| Genre | Christian |
| Label | sixsteps, Sparrow |
| Songwriter(s) | Jonas Myrin, Matt Redman |
| Music video | |
| "10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord)" on YouTube | |
"10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord)" is a contemporary Christian music song co-written by Matt Redman, an English Christian singer-songwriter based in Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom and Jonas Myrin, a Swedish singer, musician and songwriter based in Berlin, Germany. The song is copyrighted to sixstepsrecords / Sparrow Records and was recorded by Matt Redman in his 2011 album 10,000 Reasons that was released on Kingsway Music. The song has been included in a number of compilations and was covered later by a number of other artists. The song is heavily used as part of worship in various Evangelical Protestant churches and at many youth camps in English or in translations into other world languages.
The song is a contemporary version of a classic worship song making the case for "10,000 reasons for my heart to find" to praise The Lord Jesus. The inspiration for the song came through the opening verse of Psalm 103: "Praise the Lord, my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name". It is also based on the 19th century English hymn "Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven" written by Henry Francis Lyte.
Redman recalled the writing of the song was through an initial idea or suggestion from co-writer Jonas Myrin. Redman told Worship Leader magazine: "He [Myrin] played me an idea for some of the chorus melody, and I found it immediately inspiring. In fact, it felt like a perfect fit for a song based on the opening of Psalm 103. The song came together really quickly - a good chunk of the song was actually a spontaneous moment", adding that the song reiterates how "we live beneath an unceasing flow of goodness, kindness, greatness, and holiness, and every day we're given reason after reason why Jesus is so completely and utterly worthy of our highest and best devotion".
The song enumerates various attributes of The Lord in his love for mankind that makes Him worthy of worship for "ten thousand years and then forevermore", a Lord worthy of "unending praise" with the break of dawn and when the evening falls... for whatever has passed and whatever may lie ahead, from beginning to end, up to one's last days on the death bed.
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