The Bittersweet Of Life

Is there no other way, Oh God,
Except through sorrow, pain and loss?
To stamp Christ’s likeness on my soul,
No other way except the cross?

And then a voice stills all my soul,
That stilled the waves of Galilee,
“Cans’t thou not bear the furnace
If midst the flames I walk with thee?

I bore the cross, I know its weight,
I drank the cup I hold for thee.
Cans’t thou not follow where I lead?
I’ll give thee strength, lean hard on Me.”
–Author unknown