Life's Obstacles and Trials

When life's obstacles and trials
Seem like bars across our way
Keeping us from moving onward
We must rest and wait and pray.

But when time shows us no changes
Our faith wavers and grows dim
Yet it's here hope strengthens as we
Cast our helplessness on Him.

In our darkness hope gives courage
Helping us to calmly wait
Giving us the blessed assurance
God will soon unlatch the gate.

When God is silent there's a reason
Though we do not understand
God is working in the silence
For our good with purpose grand.

So we'll wait and trust God's wisdom
Though these walls still can't be moved
For it's in this very spot friend
Where God's power shall be proved!