God Knows
I know not, but God knows; Oh, blessed rest from fear! All my unfolding days To Him are plain and clear.
Each anxious puzzled “Why?” From doubt or dread that grows, Finds answer in this thought: I know not, but He knows.
I cannot but God can; Oh, balm for all my care! The burden that I drop His hand will lift and bear,
Though eagle pinions tire,— I walk where once I ran, This is my strength to know: I cannot, but God can.
– Annie Johnson Flint
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God, Our Deliverer
I know my God is able to deliver; Able to save from direst human ill; Able, as when He saved the Hebrew children— Almighty still.
But if, perchance, His plans are not my plans; If hid in darkness should my pathway be; If when I plead He does not seem to answer, Nor care for me—
Then, though men scoff and bitterly deride me— Listen! I fling my challenge to the sky! God may deliver, but if not, I’ll trust Him, And trusting, die! – M. Mannington Dexter
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