TRUST by Sel. | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 23, 1871

TRUST

By Sel.

I cannot see, with my short human sight, Why God should lead this way or that for me; I only know he saith, “Child, follow me;” But I can trust.

I know not why my path should be at times So straightly hedged, so strangely barred before; I only know God would keep wide the door; But I can trust.

I find no answer, often, when beset With questions fierce and subtle on my way, And often have but strength to faintly pray; But I can trust.

I often wonder, as with trembling hand I cast the seed along the furrowed ground, If ripened fruit for God will there be found; But I can trust.

I cannot know why suddenly the storm Should rage so fiercely round me in its wrath; But this I know, God watches all my path; And I can trust.

I may not draw aside the mystic veil That hides the unknown future from my sight; Nor know if for me waits the dark or light; But I can trust.

I have no power to look across the tide, To know, while here, the land beyond the river; But this I know, I shall be God's forever; So I can trust. —Sel.