Sustaining Grace

Heard this poem by John Piper; I thought that it captures the essence of sustaining grace. ((Click on title "Sustaining Grace" for link to the sermon by John Piper.))

Not grace to bar what is not bliss,
Nor flight from all distress, but this:
The grace that orders our trouble and pain,
And then, in the darkness, is there to sustain.
- John Piper

Ollie
Jan 2008