Farther Along - Sandi Patty

Tempted and tried, we’re oft made to wonder

Why it should be thus all the day long;

While there are others living about us

Never molested, though in the wrong

Farther along we’ll know more about it

Farther along we’ll understand why;

Cheer up, my brother, live in the sunshine

We’ll understand it all by and by

Sometimes I wonder why I must suffer

Go in the rain, the cold, and the snow

When there are many living in comfort

Giving no heed to all I can do

Tempted and tried, how often we question

Why we must suffer year after year

Being accused by those of our loved ones

E’en though we’ve walked in God’s holy fear

When death has come and taken our loved ones

Leaving our home so lone and so drear

Then do we wonder why others prosper

Living so wicked year after year

'Faithful till death' said our loving Master;

Short is our time to labor and wait;

Then will our toiling seem to be nothing

When we shall pass that beautiful gate

Soon we will see our dear, loving Master

Hear the last trumpet sound through the sky;

Then we will meet those gone on before us

Then we shall know and understand why