The Ways We Want

Faith can sit down before mysteries and say 'The Lord is good'.(From the book Consolation by Mrs. Chas. E. Cowman) 'Our grief can never be greater than God's.'(from my oldest sister who called this morning) Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.2 Tim.2:15 Right now I believe many in our church family feelutterly heartbroken, leaving nothing remaining but to entrust our broken pieces to the Hands of the Potter/Healer! Oh Lord, your ways are not our ways...Then search and know our hearts;Try and know our anxieties; And see if there is any wicked way in us,And lead us in the way everlasting.(Ps.139:23-24) The ways that we would orchestrate through fancy's earth-dimmed luresWould oft serve to alleviate what faith alone endures Because we cannot comprehend God's thoughts, misunderstood Or how He guards Want's ways that wend in conflict to our good For though our spirit boasts of noble mind, the flesh is weak We are not nat'rally inclined to want what we should seek Or to be boldly unashamed to take God at His WordThe ways we want would rush untamed to ruin undeterred God, rich in love and mercy, ordains ways beyond our kenHe guides us through Time's sin-cursed vein to victory. AmenOur grief is His; where sorrows fret He sorrows all the moreSometimes we are prone to forget where earth-dimmed views implore ...then, because what we suffer God has suffered too, He grantsHis Comforter; a buffer against darts of CircumstanceWe need you, Lord, to intercede, in ways where we would roamWithout Your rod and staff to lead us safely Home, sweet Home Janet Martin