A Hymn of Trust | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 20, 1866

A Hymn of Trust.

LEAVING God to order all thy ways, And hope in him whate'er betide; Thou'lt find him in the evil days An all-sufficient strength and guide, Who trusts in God's unchanging love, Builds on the rock that naught can move.

What can these anxious cares avail, These never-ceasing moans and sighs? What can it help us to bewail Each painful moment as it flies? Our cross and trials do but press The heavier for our bitterness.

Only your restless heart keep still, And wait in cheerful hope, content To take whate'er his gracious will, His all-discerning love has sent; Nor doubt our inmost wants are known To him who chose us for his own.

He knows when joyful hours are best, He sends them as he sees it meet; When thou hast borne its fiery test, And now art freed from all deceit, He comes to thee all unaware, And makes thee own his loving care.

Nor in the heat of pain and strife, Think God has cast thee off unheard; Nor that the man whose prosperous life Thou enviest, is of him preferred; Time passes and much change doth bring, And sets a bound to every thing.

All are alike before his face, 'Tis easy to our God most high, To make the rich man poor and base— To give the poor man wealth and joy. True wonders still of him are wrought, Who setteth up and brings to naught.

Sing, pray, and swerve not from his ways, But do thine own part faithfully; Trust his rich promises of grace, So shall it be fulfilled in thee. God never yet forsook at need The soul that trusted him indeed.