God Alone

My goal is God Himself, not joy nor peace,

Nor even blessing, but himself, my God;

'Tis His to lead me there, not mine, but His--

"At any cost, dear Lord, by any road!"

So faith bounds forward to its goal in God,

And love can trust her Lord to lead her there;

Upheld by Him, my soul is following hard

Till God hath full fulfilled my deepest prayer,

No matter if the way be sometimes dark,

No matter though the cost be often times great,

He knoweth how I best shall reach the mark,

The way that leads to Him must needs be straight.

One thing I know, I cannot say Him nay;

One thing I do, I press towards my Lord;

My God my glory here, from day to day,

And in the glory there my Great Reward
hymn by Frances Brook

"The MEANS of endurance is TRIBULATION - unless we want 

to endure only paradise. This is what the murmur of the heart is 

really saying when the grumbling escapes the unbridled lip. You 

were not enough God!  Faith says, although I have been subject to 

frustration, like all of creation, and although I groan now longing 

to discard this weak flesh, I fix my eyes on the unseen - and 

suddenly my present affliction is but light and momentary. This 

enables me to rejoice in God, despite my present groaning. It is 

by THIS HOPE that we are saved - and hope that is seen in no 

hope - who hopes for what he already has." ~Am


"People are not your audience, God is."

 ~Lisa Bevere