Wait? Anonymous Poem

These past couple of weeks have been filled with so many trials and I couldn't even figure out were to start to wright. So I thought that this poem sums up every thing almost perfectly. I was blessed by it and it made my heart grow all the more for our Lord Jesus!

Desperate and helpless and longing I cried,
Patiently, lovingly, my Lord replied.
I pled and I wept for a clue to my fate,
And the Master so gently said,"Child, you must wait."

"Wait? You said, wait?" my indignant reply,
"Lord,I need answers! I need to know why!
Is your hand shortened, or have You not heard?
By faith I have asked and I'm claiming Your Word!

"My future and all to which I can relate
Hangs in the balance, and You tell me, 'Wait,'
I'm needing a 'yes' or a 'go ahead' sign,
Or even a 'no' to which I can resign.

"And,Lord, You promised that if we believe,
We need but to ask and we shall receive.
And,Lord, I've been asking and this is my cry-
I'm weary of asking; I need a reply!"


Then quietly, softly, I learned of my fate
As my Master replied once again,"You must wait."
So I slumped in my chair, defeated and taut,
And grumbled to God, "So, I'm waiting for what?"

He seemed then to kneel, and His eyes wept with mine,
And He tenderly said, "I could give you a sign.
I could shake the heavens and darken the sun,
I could raise the dead and cause the mountains to run.

"All you seek I could give, and pleased you would be;
You would have what you want, but you wouldn't know Me.
You'd not know the depth of My love for each saint,
You'd not know the power that I give to the faint.

You'd not learn to see through the clouds of despair,
You'd not learn to trust just by knowing I'm there.
You'd not know the joy of resting in Me,
When darkness and silence were all you could see.

"You'd never experience that fullness of love.
As the peace of My Spirit descends like a dove.
You'd know that I give and I save-for a start,
But you'd not know the depth of the beat of My heart.

"The glow of My comfort late in the night,
The faith that I give when you walk without sight.
The depth that's beyond getting just what you asked
Of an infinite God who makes what you have last.

"And you'd never know, should your pain quickly flee,
What it means that My grace is sufficient for thee.
Yes, your dreams for that loved one overnight might come true,
But-oh, the loss-if lost what I'm doing in you"

"So ,be silent, My child, and in time you will see
That the greatest gifts is to get to know Me.
And though oft may My answers seem terribly late,
My most precious answer of all is still,'Wait.'"