Who is a God like God?
Shall we not bless
The ever-preserving power
Of His faithfulness?
In the hardest experience we knew
He caused us to find
Sweetness, sustaining refreshment,
Ere we left it behind.
The flinty rock,
Confronted without a fear,
Yielded the oil of heavenly inspiration,
The assurance of answered prayer.
Out of the private anguish, the darkened pain,
He has brought us forth into the radiant light
Of His love again;
Has established our feet in the pathways
His wisdom designed;
Encompassed us with His mercy
Before and behind,
Tenderly pointing the blessing
That lies in all our ways.
Out of the rock we have gathered honey,
And out of the trial, praise.
