God, Thou Art Love

The other day, I was feeling so down about myself. Right in the middle of all the turmoil of discouragement and self pity :-), God brought this poem to me and what an encouragement it has been the past week or so.

God, Thou Art Love

If I forget,

Yet God remembers! If these hands of mine

Cease from their clinging, yet the hands divine

Hold me so firmly that I cannot fall;

And if sometime I am too tired to call

For Him to help me, then He reads the prayer

Unspoken in my heart, and lifts my care.

I dare not fear, since certainly I know

That I am in God's keeping, shielded so

From all that else would harm, and in the hour

Of stern temptation strengthened by His Power;

I tread no path in life, bear no pain, alone:

My soul a calm, sure hiding-place has found:

The everlasting arms my life surrounded.

God, Thou art love! I build my faith on that.

I know Thee who has kept my path, and made

Light for me in the darkness, tempering sorrow

So that it reached me like a solemn joy;

It were too strange that I should doubt Thy love.

--Robert Browning