Fits tune: Melcombe
('New every morning is the love')
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Lord speak to me that I may hear
Some message from you, plain and clear
Strength, comfort or encouragement
Of Christ your Son who you have sent
Some word to evangel also
That others hear you, and too know
Your message of salvation sure
Not spoiled by sin, but whole and pure
Word to sustain, to ease our pain
To heal, restore, forgive again
Words planted now in hearts refined
By grace, and transformed be our mind
To think on you, focus, align
Here nothing of you dark, malign
But presence comforting, you near
May we worship with godly fear
So may seed of your word now fall
Into our hearts, we hear your call
O may it fall in soil found good
For we pray and desire it would
Though there different responses be
Seed falls on various grounds, see
Whether on path or rocks or thorns
Or on good soil, for harvest morns
Those morns, those fruitful days of when
Seeds sown do produce growth, and then
Comes pruning, but purpose is for
Lives to glorify God e'en more
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Author:
orchidee (
Offline) - Published: February 28th, 2017 11:31
- Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem with 8.8.8.8. format.
- Category: Spiritual
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Comments7
Very uplifting and comforting!
Great write
WriteBeLight said it. Uplifting and comforting. I read it with faith in my heart. There are some clever rhymes in there too.
Another good one Orchi.
Thanks all. It seems the seed is the word of God, and we are the soil. We may have a mixture of soil types within us.
Glad you enjoy, and many find it comforting. Comfort can mean ' to solace' and 'to strengthen'.
I have been sowing seeds recently and have just started pricking out for potting on.... no need to tell Fido
an interesting and age old question here it seems.... and asked in 8,8,8,8 format too 🙂
Neville
You singing me 'hymn-book' going back 3 years?! This one posted in 2017.
Yes - it seems not even all the seeds sown in good soil produce 100-fold. Some produce 30-fold, or 60-fold, as the parable says.
The famous 8.8.8.8. metre, otherwise known as Long Metre. I found out after ages what LM. was in hymn-books. His mates are 6.6.8.6. Short Metre (SM); and 8.6.8.6 Common Metre (CM). He says 'Who you calling common'?!
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