Bitter-sweet

George Herbert has some real insight into our relationship with God during times of testing and judgment:

Bitter-sweet
Ah, my dear angry Lord,
Since thou dost love, yet strike;
Cast down, yet help afford;
Sure I will do the like.
I will complain, yet praise;
I will bewail, approve;
And all my sour-sweet days
I will lament and love.

May God give us a similar trust in the good purposes of God.