Exuberance

There is no life like this!
To know that God is with me;
That He will never lead
Through any place too dark or narrow,
For Him to pass alongside.
To be beset by Him: behind and before;
At peace; covered in His hands.
He could be no nearer to me now,
Even if I were in heaven itself.

"And my soul shall be joyful in the Lord,
It shall rejoice in His salvation.
All my bones shall say,
Lord, who is like unto Thee?"