Leave God to order all thy ways,
And trust in Him whate’er betide;
Thou’lt find Him in the evil clays
An all-sufficient strength and guide:
Who trusts in God’s unchanging love,
Builds on the rock that naught can move.
That can these anxious tears avail,
These never-ceasing moans and sighs,
What can it help us to bewail
Each painful moment as it flies?
Our cross and trials do but press
The heavier for our bitterness.
Only your restless heart keep still,
And wait in cheerful hope, content
To take whate’er His gracious will,
His all-discerning love hath sent;
Nor doubt our inmost wants are known,
To Him who chose us for His own.
He knows when joyful hours are best,
He sends them as he sees it meet,
When thou halt borne the fiery test,
And now art free from all deceit,
He comes to thee all unaware,
And makes thee own His loving care.
Nor in the heat of pain and strife,
Think God hath cast thee off unheard,
Nor that the man whose prosperous life
Thou enviest, is of Him preferred.
Time passeth, and much change cloth bring,
And sets a bound to everything.
Sing, pray. and swerve not from His ways,
But do thine own part faithfully.
Trust His rich promises of grace,
So shall it be fulfilled in thee.
God never yet forsook at need
The soul that trusted Him indeed.