These are beautiful lyrics to an old hymn. I love just reading them & applying them to my life as I have begun to embark on a life changing journey. Some people God calls & sends, others are meant to help give so that the called may go. I know I am called to be sent to the fields where burdens are more numerous than I can count, hurt more frequent than I could ever imagine, & pain more real that I could ever feel. God is beautiful in His power to love, to heal, & to free. I am so thankful to be apart of the ones He has called to send to His fields.
So send I you to labor unrewarded,
To serve unpaided, 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 love 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.
