Worth It All...

I commented to someone this morning how the eagerness and excitement
of the Sunday School children 

(looking forward to dressing up like people of old on that First Christmas)

makes 'it' (the extra effort etc.) so worth it all!

My thoughts suddenly flashed to our Heavenly Father looking upon His children,

where many mourn and suffer more than laugh

yet oh, how He knows it was/will be worth it all!

(Now if we are (His) children, then we are heirs--

heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ,

 if indeed we share in his sufferings 

in order that we may also share in his glory. Rom.8:17)

click this link for the story behind the above song

Then when we bow our hearts and heads and whisper ‘I believe’

When we say ‘not my will but thine’, His purpose to achieve

When we count it all joy to bear life’s trials for His sake

Knowing that perseverance comes through trying of our faith

When we without miserly bent give more than ‘just enough’

And trust in what-so state we are to be content and love

When hope that does not make ashamed makes worth the tender toll

Where His grace is sufficient for the carriage/courage of the soul

And when He sees trust prove belief until we Hear Him call

And we stand face to face, both weeping ‘it was worth it all’

Then we will touch His scars as He wipes final tears away

As He receives the glory for the price He had to pay

…then, when we do not understand His perfect reasoning

We ought to come to Bethlehem and bow before the King

And there behold the Lamb of God who came to take away

The sins of this world so that we may dwell with Him for aye

© Janet Martin

 Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, 

and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.

Psalm 23:6