Where do I find courage?

Have courage, be strong; I have told myself so many times.
In the face of darkness there is confusion and my mind starts to wonder.
My body starts to shake with fear and terror grips my soul.

How can I have courage when faced with the unknown?
Where can the strength come from when weakness has consumed?
Is there a way to clear the darkness? Do I blindly walk in?

Searching my mind I find no strength or courage.
Reaching deeper inside all I discover is more of the unknown.
Where is the answer? Is it in me? Is it in my human strength?

I turn to God, but hear nothing, neither comfort nor revelation.
I search in others, though they love me, the answer they don’t have.
Where do I turn now? Should I give in? Should I turn back?

I look to the book on my nightstand, The Bible it is entitled.
The Word of God, could it be that the answer is in its pages?
I open it and start to read asking guidance from His Spirit.

Though the darkness has not lifted there is strength within the verses.
Pain instilled in me since I was small agonizingly begins to surface.
But I read on, with His Spirit guiding my mind and my soul.

The verses I discover speak of trust; they speak of faith in what is not seen.
These lives touched by God, the same lives the world had condemned.
Men and women who trusted God though pain extreme and future bleak.

My life I place in your hands Lord, I have no strength left of my own.
Guide me as you did those written about in your Word.
Search me, heal me and inspire me as you did those long ago.

I will let you be my strength and courage; I will in vision my hand in yours.
Lead me through the darkness; inspire me with your Word.
I will not trust my feelings or doubts, but only you to lead me through.

by Brenda

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