Will You Trust Me?

Sometimes life makes me want to shout

Everything becomes clouded in a fog of doubt

I cry out and say I want out

And turn and ask God what’s all this about

“Am I wrong?” he would demand

“To put you in such a place?

Can you question me?

Who created all in the first place?”

I know I cannot answer

Job said the same long ago

Yet looking all around me

I wonder why this is so

Then a quiet voice

In a gentler tone

Asks “Do you trust me?”

“Is it you can’t or you won’t?”

I looked up but can’t reply

I am afraid of what I’ll say

But I needn’t have answered

He continued anyway

“I am the Alpha and the Omega

The beginning and the end

All things were created through me

And you are in my hands”

“The Sun rises at my bidding

But it is you that I love

So don’t be afraid in the darkness

Be secure in my love”

“I try!” I cry

“But it is harder than you say

The road stretches out before me

And I do not know the way”

Then there was a silence

An awful long one still

And he suddenly spoke