So Send I You

[lillibet53]

I love this hymn--wish it were sung more often in my church.



So Send I You

So send I you to labor unrewarded,
To serve unpaid, unloved, unsought, unknown,
To bear rebuke, to suffer scorn and scoffing-
So send I you to toil for Me alone.

So send I you to bind the bruised and broken,
O'er wand'ring souls to work, to weep, to wake,
To bear the burdens of a world aweary-
So send I you to suffer for My sake.

So send I you to loneliness and longing,
With heart ahung'ring for the loved and known,
Forsaking home and kindred, friend and dear one-
So send I you to know My love alone.

So send I you to leave your life's ambition,
To die to dear desire, self-will resign,
To labor long, and love where men revile you-
So send I you to lose your life in Mine.

So send I you to hearts made hard by hatred,
To eyes made blind because they will not see,
To spend, tho' it be blood, to spend and spare not-
So send I you to taste of Calvary.

[CanuckLynn]

Thank-you Liz! 

A ton of different emotions just flooded over me; from remembering my mom play this on the organ, singing with her as a teenager... to the message in this song.  'So send I you' 

Thank-you for sending us precious Father,
For giving us a task to do for You!
Pave the way for us to share Your story,
As we wait for You to bring us home to glory!

[lillibet53]

To me, this hymn is a reminder that while He didn't promise us (as the secular song goes) a rose garden, He did promise us that at the end of all things, it will have been worth it.