A PRAYER OF TRUST

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 26, 1882

A PRAYER OF TRUST.

O, FATHER, is this "trying of my faith" That which thou hast called "precious?" Dearest Lord, Help me to "think all joy," since thou dost send For my own good the trial. Let the gold "Tried in the fire thine own image bear. Thy strength is to sit still," thou hast declared; But can I hold me still when this tired heart Quivers with inward pain, and the flesh shrinks, And every sense seems numbed, and life's deep springs Are failing? From the depths I cry to thee, Who for me bore a nature like my own. O, human Saviour, hear my human cry, And pity as thou only canst, dear Lord! Never on earth from weakness thou didst turn, Nor send the fainting multitudes away Unfed; and shall this hungry, aching heart, That turns alone to thee in its deep need, Be thrust aside? Dear Lord, thou canst not spurn A thing so poor, so helpless, from thy side, And thou hast been my help in days gone by. So closer, closer to thy wounded side I press, That if I needs must suffer, thy dear arm May be about me, and thy loving breast May prove my shelter though all other fail. In utter weakness here I lay me down At thy dear feet, my Saviour, nevermore In joy or sorrow, Lord, from thee to part.