Number 375
Not Now, But in the Coming Years (Sometime We’ll Understand)

1. Not now but in the coming years, It may be in the better land, We’ll read the meaning of our tears, And there sometime we’ll understand.

Then trust in God through all thy day; Fear not, for he doth hold thy hand; Though dark thy way still sing and praise; Sometime, sometime we’ll understand.

2. We’ll catch the broken threads again And finish what we here began; Heav’n will the mysteries explain, And then, ah, then we’ll understand.

Then trust in God through all thy day; Fear not, for he doth hold thy hand; Though dark thy way still sing and praise; Sometime, sometime we’ll understand.

3. We’ll know why clouds instead of sun Were over many a cherished plan; Why song has ceased when scarce begun; ’Tis there some time we’ll understand,

Then trust in God through all thy day; Fear not, for he doth hold thy hand; Though dark thy way still sing and praise; Sometime, sometime we’ll understand.

4. Why what we long for most of all Eludes so oft our eager hand, Why hopes are crushed and castles fall; Up there sometime we’ll understand.

Then trust in God through all thy day; Fear not, for he doth hold thy hand; Though dark thy way still sing and praise; Sometime, sometime we’ll understand.

5. God knows the way; he holds the key; He guides us with unerring hand; Sometime with tearless eyes we’ll see; Yes, there, up there we’ll understand.

Then trust in God through all thy day; Fear not, for he doth hold thy hand; Though dark thy way still sing and praise; Sometime, sometime we’ll understand.