Seed Sowing

orchidee



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

 

 

 

  • Author: orchidee (Offline Offline)
  • Published: February 28th, 2017 11:31
  • Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem with 8.8.8.8. format.
  • Category: Spiritual
  • Views: 56
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Comments7

  • WriteBeLight

    Very uplifting and comforting!

  • Tony36

    Great write

  • Augustus

    WriteBeLight said it. Uplifting and comforting. I read it with faith in my heart. There are some clever rhymes in there too.

  • Goldfinch60

    Another good one Orchi.

  • orchidee

    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.

  • orchidee

    Glad you enjoy, and many find it comforting. Comfort can mean ' to solace' and 'to strengthen'.

  • Neville


    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

    • orchidee

      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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