To know while circumstance deceives
Takes more than this mortality
Can muster; Lord, help us believe
To trust in God’s infinite grace
To rest in peace amidst life’s storm
Takes more than fingers can embrace
Or fathom in this flesh-blood form
To reach without tangible touch
To love beyond regard for cost
To give without knowing how much
To make God our sole soul-boast…
…takes more than we can prove with might
This ‘hope that maketh not ashamed’
Where ‘we live by faith, not by sight’
Tests every Promise we have claimed
© Janet Martin
Living Hope
...who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials, so
that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold which is
perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise
and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ;…1 Pet. 1:5-7
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