With Veiled Eyes...

God’s thoughts are a mystery

We cannot explain

The reasoning of His perfect say

But someday in Heaven

All will be plain

When this world has vanished away

Life’s tribulation

Its pain and its grief

Are not absences of His grace

But, by these we long

For Heaven’s relief

And eternity’s resting place

The curse of sin

Covers the earth

With many a tortured woe

Redemption offers

Hope’s re-birth

In Calvary’s ceaseless flow

Man’s faith is tested

To be proven; refined

God’s love is oft misunderstood

In spite of our folly

He is faithful and kind

And above all; God is good

Our earth-dimmed vision

Cannot see the whole

We see; but only in part

Through a glass darkly

God sees man’s soul

And the deepest intent of the heart

God’s thoughts are a mystery

We cannot explain

His sacred and holy tears

But someday in Heaven

All will be plain

As the veil in our eyes disappears

© Janet Martin

 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
    neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth,
    so are my ways higher than your ways
    and my thoughts than your thoughts.Isa. 55:8-9 NIV