I wrote the following poem this past summer during a particularly challenging season of life. Life has honestly been so challenging for me personally this year, but I felt God gave me this poem one morning and I want to share it with you all. Maybe you, too, are learning to trust. Our God is so trustworthy. We won't always understand His ways, but we can trust His heart.
My heart is sick of a hope deferred
It aches from the weary delay
But I know that those who will wait on the Lord
They shall renew their strength
I’ve been told that He’s long been at work
On some beautiful master plan
And to me, it’s assigned to keep walking by faith
To trust, and to hold to His hand
The heavens seem silent, forgotten I feel
Yet I know that He sees where I am
And I’m learning to trust with all of my heart
And lean not to how I understand
For His ways are higher and so beyond mine
So I’ll trust and hope just as I should
For He says if I love Him and if I am called
He’s working all things for my good
I’m learning to place all my hopes and my dreams
Into hands, still scarred from cruel nails
For if Jesus could conquer sin, death, and hell
I know that He surely won’t fail
He knows how it feels to surrender His will
To be crushed, and bruised and smitten
Yet great victory came when He died and arose
And fulfilled many promises written
My heart is sick of a hope deferred
It aches from the weary delay
But I know that those who will wait on the Lord
They shall renew their strength
Written by: Jennifer Connell
June 7th, 2020
2 comments:
My Bible reading this morning included Hebrews chapter 11. Each of those great heroes of faith had to learn to trust, too. You're in great company! If we understood, it wouldn't be called trust.
So true! If we understood everything we wouldn't have to trust. What a blessing to know my life is in the hands of a God in whom I can fully trust! Love you! Thanks for commenting.
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