Lyrics The Test - Janice Kapp Perry , Roger Hoffman

Tell me friend, why are you blind?
Why doesn't He who worked the miracles
Send light into your eyes?
Tell me friend if you understand
Why doesn't He with power to raise the dead
Just make you whole again?

It would be so easy for Him
I watch you and in sorrow question why
Then you my friend in perfect faith reply

Didn't He say He sent us to be tested?
Didn't He say the way would not be sure?
But didn't He say that we could live with Him forevermore
Well and whole, if we but patiently endure?
After the trial, we will be blessed
But this life is the test

Tell me friend, I see your pain
Why when you pray in faith for healing
Does the crippling thorn remain?
Help me see if you understand
Why doesn't He who healed the lame man
Come with healing in His wings?

It would be so easy for him
I watch you and in sorrow question why
Then you my friend in perfect faith reply

Didn't He say He sent us to be tested?
Didn't He say the way would not be sure?
But didn't He say we could live with Him forevermore
Well and whole, if we but patiently endure?
After the trial, we will be blessed
But this life is the test

Tell me love, why must you die?
Why must your loved ones stand with empty arms
And ask the question why?
Help me know so I can go on
How when your love in faith sustained me
Can the precious gift be gone?

From the depths of sorrow I cry
Though pangs of grief within my soul arise
The whisperings of the Spirit still my cries

Didn't He say He sent us to be tested?
Didn't He say the way would not be sure?
But didn't He say we could live with Him forever more
Well and whole, if we but patiently endure?
After the trial, we will be blessed
But this life is the test