Resignation | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 18, 1877

Resignation.

FATHER, I have learned to trust, And feel at length that thou art just To take away Each staff and stay Which hindered me From trusting thee. I now resign My will to thine.

Not till I found myself forsaken, And all I clung to most was taken— Of friends bereft, Till few were left— Could I look up, Accept the cup, And calmly say, Be thou my stay.

Now with confiding love I rest Upon my precious Saviour’s breast, And feel that he My friend will be Through all the strife And toils of life. With Jesus near I need not fear.

Yes, I have fully learned at last On him my every care to cast; My dearest friends Are in his hands. I’ll trust his care, And leave them there; Say, “Peace, be still!” And wait his will.

—Watchman and Reflector.