p. 12 | We Need Not Understand by F. E. BELDEN

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 18, 1915

We Need Not Understand

By F. E. BELDEN

F. E. BELDEN

The desert way He sometimes leads us, The simple manna that he feeds us, The humble work for which he needs us, We may not always understand; But while for Canaan gardens yearning, God’s lessons patiently we’re learning; The fiery pillar still is burning; He leads—we need not understand.

The bondage which we’ve left, repenting, The foe that follows unrelenting, The deep, wide sea our flight preventing, We may not always understand; But we’ve a Father wise as loving, Let faith his promises be proving; Stand still and see the waters moving; He rules—we need not understand.

Why to the bitter fountains guided, When ’twas for crystal springs we chided, Nor knew we prayed with heart divided, We may not always understand; But by the lonely pool of Marah, The living water seemeth dearer, And Christ, the riven Rock, is nearer; Life flows—we need not understand.

And when we reach the Jordan River, Where day’s last shadows faintly quiver, O may the arms of the Life-giver Bear safely to the Promised Land! Till then we trust the One who knoweth, No storm forbidden ever bloweth, No tear unnoticed ever floweth: He knows—sometime we’ll understand.