Trials

Too often trials get a bad rap.  Here's a bad rap with some thoughts on trials.  You provide the music.

Can you appreciate sunshine without the rain?

Or treasure good health without the pain?

Can couples rejoice in a child's birth

without filled quiver to understand worth?

All are true to some degree,

but a fuller regard through life they see.

So to lift thy loudest praise,

and whole-hearted lauding of Christ you raise,

with all the strength of mustered voice,

though trials be heavy in Him rejoice!

For tests of faith you must endure,

their perfect result: presenting you mature.

What brother in strife would fail to see

trials are life's necessity?

From death to life trials transform,

Is the Savior in focus without the storm?

From the storm your life He saves.

Are you looking to Christ or fearing the waves?