To Make His Glory Seen

Written April 2015
Based on Psalm 30:11,12

LORD, my heart is broken; it seems there’s no way through.
Yet, in your Word, I see my suff’ring’s meant to point to You;

When facing death and anguish, You begged the Father’s grace,
Fervently requesting He’d remove You from that place.

Yet even in those urgent prayers, You knew that grace may mean
Your suff’ring was the tool He’d use to make His glory seen.

Behind this looming shadow, there looms yet larger still
The shadow of Your cross—the place You chose to yield Your will.
LORD help me likewise yield to grace, though my pain is sharp and keen,
And help me yield my will to His, to make His glory seen.

LORD, my heart’s still aching, and I cannot see the end,
Yet I see reflected in my pain my Savior and my Friend;

Betrayed by friends, then spurned by God for sins that weren’t Your own,
You cried and asked Your Father why He’d left You all alone.

Yet even in His silence and the darkness of that scene,
You knew Your suff’ring would be used to make His glory seen.

Behind this looming shadow, there looms yet larger still
The shadow of Your cross—the place You chose to yield Your will.
LORD help me likewise yield to grace, though my pain is sharp and keen,
And help me yield my will to His, to make His glory seen.

LORD, despite my heartache and this agony of soul,
Help me ne’er to faint, but look to You, remembering Your goal;

Your purpose then in coming here and leaving Heaven’s throne
Was to empower me to take that purpose as my own:

That purpose we now share, despite the ages passed between,
Is simply that—above all else—His glory may be seen.

Behind this looming shadow, there looms yet larger still
The shadow of Your cross—the place You chose to yield Your will.
LORD help me likewise yield to grace, though my pain is sharp and keen,
And like You yield my will to His, to make His glory seen.