Chords for The Test

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