WAIT ON THE LORD by C. L. Richards

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 7, 1897

“WAIT ON THE LORD.”

By C. L. Richards

O SOUL, why wearied be with God at thy right hand?

He bids thee wait and see and not impatient stand.

Of courage strong be thou, and He shall strength impart.

Wait, wait, says Jesus, wait, and I will guide thy heart.

Sure I had fainted now unless I had believed,

And seen Thy goodness in the land in which I lived.

But still there’s room for faith and confidence and love;

And thus by trusting God I’ll reach my home above.

O soul, if doubt and grief, like floods, come sweeping o’er,

If sympathy and love thy heart is yearning for,

O, look to Jesus then, who for thy life hath died,

And for thy sins and guilt was mocked and crucified.

He now is standing there at God’s right hand in heaven,

Pleading for thee and me, that we might be forgiven.

He tells us if we come to places dark and hard

To just stand still and see th’ salvation of our Lord.

We need not fret nor faint because our friends seem cold,

Or try to win them back by acts which might look bold;

But pray instead to God, who never waits too late,

Then fix our gaze above and patient stand and wait.

C. L. RICHARDS.

College View, Neb.