Faith-trouble

To hope in One we cannot see

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