Trouble's Shining Hour

John 1:1-5

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  

 He was with God in the beginning.  

 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. ⁴

 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.  

 The light shines in the darkness, 

and the darkness has not overcome^[a] it.

The world groans beneath threats of doom and forecasts of despair

These days were written in God’s Word, we, beckoned to prepare

The Light that goes before us will not waver or grow dim

Lift up your voice in joyful chorus of worship to Him

The law of night to day steadfastly stays its ordained course

For none can sway the mind of God or move His Hand by force

Then lean on He who does not change like shifting shadows will

While all the words of prophecy unfold, pass and fulfill

Man’s deduction and rhetoric composed by what ‘they say’

Serves often to consume us when we ought to pray and pray

Dear Father, rich in mercy bearing witness to our plight

Make this the Shining Hour when some turn from dark to Light

For not in good but troubled times, we see our frailty

How without You, hope is a sad state of futility

So, Father up in heaven, let us hear your tender woo

And pray its Shining Hour draws our hearts and minds to You

© Janet Martin

 If anyone speaks, he should speak as one conveying the words of God.

 If anyone serves, he should serve with the strength God provides, 

so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ,

 to whom be the glory and the power forever and ever. 

Amen.

1 Pet.4:11