"Stand your ground, you're being tried"

Are problems closing all around
And heartache heard in every sound?
Do you wish for peace but all breaks loose?
Is the world closing in, around on you?

There's no escape, you think thats it
Your entire world just falls to bits
But from the distance you hear a cry
“Stand your ground, you're being tried”

Are battle scars now deeply set?
Your rivers of tears make all things wet?
The sun is setting on the battle field
You feel you've lost and ready to yield

Commander not found, but He is there
You offer up one final prayer
And from the distance you hear the reply
“Stand your ground, you're being tried”

Your family is all but fallen apart
And with each fight it tears your heart
There seems no reconciliation here
As you shed another silent tear

The very last friend you seem to own
Has now left you to suffer a broken home
But from the distance you hear the cry
“Stand your ground, you're being tried”

With childhood gone you face the teens
And life is closing in it seems
Confusion is beginning to set on in
What's happened to where your life begins?

But growing, you're learning the lesson here
It won't be long, so have no fear
You're only young and facing life
So “stand your ground, you're being tried”

Ill health has come to ail you
The sky is gray, no longer blue
Why would God have permitted this?
Its just unfair, thats all it is

You wish to die, as it seems the way
To end your suffering of present day
But death is only what fools would try
You must “stand your ground, you're being tried”

This life is trying, and full of pain
There comes a new trial with each new day
But tears of joy will flow as much
As tears of pain, sorrow, and such

There's beauty in flowers, and not just thorns
Your heart may be healed, where once it was torn
Life's burden is heavy, I can't deny
But “stand your ground, you're being tried”

When life is nearing its final end
Don't be sad and gloomy friend
There's much more left after setting sun
Your life in God has just begun

Stay firm and true until the day
The saints are raised from earthly graves
See the present as temporary life
“Stand your ground, you're being tried”

Whenever you feel like giving in
To sorrow, temptation, or some loved sin
Don't give up, there's another day
Fall to your knees, my friend, and pray

“Lord, I'm sick of all my woes
Trial follows where ever I go
But all my needs You have supplied,
So I'll stand my ground, I'm being tried

-Lucinda Ramsay