So send I you to labour

- So send I you to labour 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 wandering 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 a-hungering 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 labour 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, though it be blood,
- to spend and spare not,
- so send I you, to taste of Calvary.
- ‘As the Father hath sent Me, so send I you.’
Album: English Hymns, Artist: Christina Rossetti, Language: English, Viewed: 503 times