If We Could See Beyond Today

 If We Could See Beyond Today (also known as Beyond Today)  

Words: Jerome McCauley 1909 (sometimes listed as anonymous) 

Text is in the public domain.  

Music is commonly by Norman J. Clayton 1943

Tune itself remains under copyright.

1  

If we could see beyond today  

As God can see,  

If all the clouds should roll away,  

The shadows flee,  

O’er present griefs we would not fret,  

Each sorrow we would soon forget,  

For many joys are waiting yet  

For you and me.

2  

If we could know beyond today  

As God doth know,  

Why dearest treasures pass away  

And tears must flow,  

And why the darkness leads to light,  

Why dreary days will soon grow bright;  

Some day life’s wrong will be made right,  

Faith tells us so.

3  

If we could see, if we could know,  

We often say,  

But God in love a veil doth throw  

Across our way;  

We cannot see what lies before,  

And so we cling to Him the more:  

He leads us till this life is o’er,  

Trust and obey.