Wasted Time?

I’ve long since lost count
Of disappointments wrought
And pitched battles lost
No matter how hard we fought

Another disappointment
After months of prayer and tears
Considering it wasted time
Awakens my greatest fears

All our brightest hopes
The sleepless midnight cries
Were they all in vain
No matter how hard we tried?

Hope deferred, You said
Makes sick our very hearts
This doubt, even despair
Threaten to rend them apart

Do we then give up
And lay our burden down?
Do we give up the rescue
When another needlessly drowns?

Oh, it is unthinkable
To let this discouragement in
No matter how hard it gets
We can’t let the enemy win

So, Lord here we stand
It is all that we can do
We do not understand it all
But we give ourselves to you