WHAT DID YOU FIND, LORD?
What did you find, Lord, on that day
While sowing your seed, you came by my way?
When seeds of grace to me you threw,
What did you find here, amidst the dew?
Was my heart like a path, hardened and cold
No place for your truth to burrow and take hold?
Did it lay there unyielded, left open as prey
For the birds of the air to come take it away?
Did you see me as weak and unable to bear
The suffering I'll have when your name I declare?
Did your truth find a joy that would wither away,
When my faith is tested, and finds a cost to pay?
When you looked my way and truth you cast down
Did the way of my heart cause you to frown?
Was I pulled by worry and distracted by things
That won't stand the fire when eternity rings?
Or did you, Lord, as the seed left your hand
Find a fertile heart on which it would land
Will your truth take hold and grow to yield
A legacy of grace, Your kingdom to build?
based on Jesus' Parable of the Sower
Matthew 13
by Jim Elder, Pastor
United Methodist Churches:
Montgomery, Mt. Zion and Atlanta, Louisiana
What did you find, Lord, on that day
While sowing your seed, you came by my way?
When seeds of grace to me you threw,
What did you find here, amidst the dew?
Was my heart like a path, hardened and cold
No place for your truth to burrow and take hold?
Did it lay there unyielded, left open as prey
For the birds of the air to come take it away?
Did you see me as weak and unable to bear
The suffering I'll have when your name I declare?
Did your truth find a joy that would wither away,
When my faith is tested, and finds a cost to pay?
When you looked my way and truth you cast down
Did the way of my heart cause you to frown?
Was I pulled by worry and distracted by things
That won't stand the fire when eternity rings?
Or did you, Lord, as the seed left your hand
Find a fertile heart on which it would land
Will your truth take hold and grow to yield
A legacy of grace, Your kingdom to build?
based on Jesus' Parable of the Sower
Matthew 13
by Jim Elder, Pastor
United Methodist Churches:
Montgomery, Mt. Zion and Atlanta, Louisiana
