The Test Chords by Janice Kapp Perry & Roger Hoffman

_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] Tell me, friend, _ why [F] are you [A] blind?
_ [Dm] _ _ Why doesn't He who worked [F] the [G] miracles
Send light [C] into your [F] eyes?
_ [C] Tell me, friend, if you [F] _
[A] understand
_ [Dm] _ Why doesn't He with power to raise the dead
[G] Just make you [C] whole again?
_ _ [F] _ It would be [C] so easy [Em] for Him _
[F] I watch you and [E] in sorrow question [Am] _ why _ _ _ _
[Dm] Then you, my friend, [C] in perfect [G] faith reply _ _ _ _
_ Didn't [C] He say He sent us [Am] to be tested?
_ [D] _ _
[A] Didn't [C] He say [G] the way would not [C] be sure?
_ _ But didn't [Em] He say we [Am] could live with Him
[F] _ _ _ Forevermore, _ [Dm] well and whole
[E] _ If we but patiently _ [Am] endure?
_ _ [Dm] _ _
After [C] the trial, _ _ _ we will [F#] be blest _ _
_ _ [Dm] But _ this _
_ [D] life _ is [C] the _
_ _ _ [F] test
_ [C] _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
Tell me, friend, _ I [F] see your pain
_ _ Why [Dm] when you pray in [G] faith for healing
[C] Does the crippling thorn remain? _ _ _
Help me see if you [F] understand
_ _ _ _ Why [Dm] doesn't He who healed [G] the lame man
Come [C] with healing in His _ wings?
[G] It would be [C] so easy _ [Em] for Him
_ [F] I watch you [E] and in sorrow [Am] question why _ _ _
Then [Dm] you, my friend, [C] in perfect faith reply
_ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [C] Didn't He say _ He sent us to be [Am] tested?
_ [D] _
_ [G] Didn't [C] He say the [G] way would not be sure?
[C] _ _ _
But didn't [Em] He say we [Am] could live with Him
_ [F] _ _ Forevermore, [Dm] well and whole
[E] _ _ If we but patiently [Am] _ endure?
_ [Dm] _ _
After [C] the trial, _ _ we will [F#] be _ blest _
_ _ But [Dm] _ this [G] life _ _ _ is [C] the test
_ _ [F] Tell _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
me, [D] love, _ why [F] must you [A] die?
_ [F] _ _ Why must [Dm] your loved ones stand with empty arms
[G] And [C] ask the question, why?
[F] _ _
[C] Help me know _ so I can [F] go [C] on _ _ _
How, [Dm] when your [D] love and faith [G] sustained me
Can the precious gift [C] be gone?
_ [G] _ From the depths of [C] sorrow [Em] I cry
[F] Though pains of [E] grief within my [Am] soul _ _ arise
_ _ _ [Dm] The whisperings of [C] the Spirit still [G] my cry
_ _ _ _ [C] Didn't He say He sent us to be [Am] tested?
_ _ _ [G] _ [C] Didn't He say [F] the way [A] would not be [C] sure?
_ _ _ But [Em] didn't He say we [Am] could live with Him
[F] _ _
Forevermore, _ [Dm] well and whole
_ [E] _
If we but patiently _ [Am]
endure?
_ _ [Dm] _ _ After [C] the trial, _ _ we will [F#] be _ _ blest
_ _ [Dm] But this _ life [F] _ _ _
_ _ is [G] the _ [C]
test _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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