The Test - Feat. 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