"For we through the Spirit by faith wait for the HOPE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS."
There are times when things look very dark to me--so dark that I have to wait even for hope. It is bad enough to wait IN hope. A long-deferred fulfillment carries its own pain, but to wait FOR hope, to see no glimmer of a prospect and yet refuse to despair, to have nothing but night before the casement and yet to keep the casement open for possible stars to have a vacant place in my heart and yet allow that place to be filled by no inferior presence--that is the grandest patience in the universe.
Thou hast made waiting beautiful; Thou hast made patience divine. Thou hast taught us that the Father's will may be received just because it IS His will. Thou hast revealed to us that a soul may see nothing but sorrow in the cup and yet may refuse to let it go, convinced that the eye of the Father sees further than its own.
Give me this divine power of Thine, the power of Gethsemane. Give me the power to wait for hope itself, to look out from the casement when there are no stars. Give me the power, when the very joy that was set before me is gone, to stand unconquered amid the night, and say, "To the eye of my Father perhaps it is shining still." I shall reach the climax of strength when I have learned to wait for hope. --George Matheson
Let there be hope today, Lord,
Hope as I watch and pray, Lord,
Hope of a sunlit way, Lord,
In the dark day give hope!
Hope when the waves roll high, Lord,
Hope when the winds sweep by, Lord,
Hope through a storm-rent sky, Lord,
Into my heart send hope!
In hope against hope, I wait, Lord,
Faced by some fast-barred gate, Lord,
Hope never says "Too late", Lord,
Therefore in Thee I hope!
Hope though the night be long, Lord,
Hope of a glowing dawn, Lord!
Morning MUST break in song, Lord,
For we are "saved by hope".
--Bessie Porter Head
There are times when things look very dark to me--so dark that I have to wait even for hope. It is bad enough to wait IN hope. A long-deferred fulfillment carries its own pain, but to wait FOR hope, to see no glimmer of a prospect and yet refuse to despair, to have nothing but night before the casement and yet to keep the casement open for possible stars to have a vacant place in my heart and yet allow that place to be filled by no inferior presence--that is the grandest patience in the universe.
Thou hast made waiting beautiful; Thou hast made patience divine. Thou hast taught us that the Father's will may be received just because it IS His will. Thou hast revealed to us that a soul may see nothing but sorrow in the cup and yet may refuse to let it go, convinced that the eye of the Father sees further than its own.
Give me this divine power of Thine, the power of Gethsemane. Give me the power to wait for hope itself, to look out from the casement when there are no stars. Give me the power, when the very joy that was set before me is gone, to stand unconquered amid the night, and say, "To the eye of my Father perhaps it is shining still." I shall reach the climax of strength when I have learned to wait for hope. --George Matheson
Let there be hope today, Lord,
Hope as I watch and pray, Lord,
Hope of a sunlit way, Lord,
In the dark day give hope!
Hope when the waves roll high, Lord,
Hope when the winds sweep by, Lord,
Hope through a storm-rent sky, Lord,
Into my heart send hope!
In hope against hope, I wait, Lord,
Faced by some fast-barred gate, Lord,
Hope never says "Too late", Lord,
Therefore in Thee I hope!
Hope though the night be long, Lord,
Hope of a glowing dawn, Lord!
Morning MUST break in song, Lord,
For we are "saved by hope".
--Bessie Porter Head
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