Wedding Veil/Vale

 

Sometimes when I look at these precious tots I mourn for them,

and the world they are growing up in...

but they will have the same Enduring and Faithful God over all...

(Your faithfulness endures to all generations... Psalm 119:90)

and just like generations before them,

they will need to learn to lean and listen, 

trust and obey.

Trust and Obey

Dear Lord, we come to Thee in meek, earnest and grateful prayer

Entrusting all we cannot see into your faithful care

Before Your throne of grace, we place our heap of humble pleas

And thank you for your faithful Keep throughout the centuries

This veil/vale of day-to-day runs through a darksome hourglass

Where none of us can see the way before it comes to pass

Lord, help us not to yield to fear, save You, reverently

For time is but the sheer veneer that veils eternity

Forgive us Lord, when we neglect to praise your Worthy name

Blindly intent on what we see instead of why You came

To bear sin’s vast and ghastly cost for each and everyone

So that our souls will not be lost when life on earth is done

Dear Lord, for health and strength, or when health and strength start to fail

We thank You for your promises that nothing can derail

For you will never leave or forsake, come whatever may

You comfort sorrow’s heartache and you hear us when we pray

...and You reply, sometimes with yes so very plain to see

Sometimes it seems you finesse faith with Mercy's mystery

But you are faithful even when we cannot understand

Thy All-wise acumen moving Giver and Taker's Hand

Dear Lord, then let love’s hymn resound, abound in word and deed

The Rock of Ages is the solid ground that we all need

The gates of hell cannot against Your Will and Word prevail

Your church oh, Lord is founded on a Rock that cannot fail

Lord, let us live as if we are The Eager Bride that waits

Devoted to the Groom, as She dearly anticipates

Love’s final covenant, proclaimed, acclaimed like none before

When this dark Veil/vale of Days is rent/raised and time will be no more

Amen

© Janet Martin

On Christ, The Solid Rock I Stand

John 14:27
Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you. 

I do not give to you as the world gives. 

Do not let your hearts be troubled; do not be afraid.

John 15:18
If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first.