Terms and Trials


Initially I wrote this while taking an elective course on the book of Job. This week we have had our own trial by near by fires out here in Southern California (Santa Clarita Valley, northern Los Angeles County). The Lord has seen fit so far to spare our home (at least 25 in our area have been destroyed) and Grace to You, the ministry where my husband works and I volunteer, has been functioning even with fires within sight.


Terms and Trials


Terms and trials:

When is the thing just annoying?

When is it really adversity?

When is it a loss of sleep?

When sovereignty gives way

And tranquility is absent,

Doom and gloom on the ascent,

Sighing is strangling

When sovereignty is absent

And tranquility gives way,

When God is to appearance distracted

And I can only sway,

Wondering what to grasp

Of terms and trials,

Arrogance and denials,

Sleepless in my sleep,

Loneliness increasing deep;

Spiral this direction and that,

Cry like an almost-four on her mat.

Terms and trials--

Neither for nought--

Victory for each

Already Christ-blood-bought.

Rest, O heart and restless mind--

In His holding comfort find!