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