Old-Church

By Ashley Johnson

May I Only See Your Favor - A poetic meditation on 1 Peter 1:6-9

May I only see your favor 
In my ordained pain
May I remember the Lord Jesus
When my perseverance wanes

May I see the face of affliction
And never blink an eye 
Knowing it was after suffering
My Savior was lifted high

May I see the fiery furnace
As a testing of my love
And let my faith become more precious
As I cling to what’s above


May I see these various trials
Inch me closer to the cross
And as I cling to it so dearly 
Count everything else as loss

Although I have not seen him
I know my soul secure 
For it was in the very testing 
I found the only cure

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