From the book I’m currently working on, Still, Still with Thee – a book of morning and evening prayers for every day of the year – a prayer expressing trust in God, no matter what we face. To paraphrase the words of Simon Peter: ‘In what else can I put my faith?’
My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says the Lord. For as the
heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts
higher than your thoughts.
Isaiah 55:8-9
Though trouble comes, Lord,
yet will I trust you, for your ways are not my ways.
Though sorrow comes, Lord,
yet will I trust you, for your ways are not my ways.
Though pain comes, Lord,
yet will I trust you, for your ways are not my ways.
Though hardship comes, Lord,
yet will I trust you, for your ways are not my ways.
Though trouble comes, Lord,
yet will I trust you, for your ways are not my ways.
Though testing comes, Lord,
yet will I trust you, for your ways are not my ways.
Though hurt comes, Lord,
yet will I trust you, for your ways are not my ways.
Though trouble comes, Lord,
yet will I trust you, for your ways are not my ways.
Though disappointment comes, Lord,
yet will I trust you, for your ways are not my ways.
Though fear comes, Lord,
yet will I trust you, for your ways are not my ways.
Though uncertainty comes, Lord,
yet will I trust you, for your ways are not my ways.
Whatever life brings, Lord, I will trust you,
not with blind faith,
and not always comfortably or even willingly,
but you speak to my innermost self,
my deepest needs,
of things beyond me.
In what else can I put my faith?
Amen.