when i saw what lay before me lord i cried what will you do i though he would just remove it but he gently led me through cuase without fire there s no refining without pain no relief without flood there s no rescue without testing no belief through the fire through the blood through the water through the flood though the dry and baren places through life s dence and maddening mazes through the pain and through the glory we will always tell the story of our god whose power and mercy will not fail to take us through 