My hymn for today: So Send I You. Isolated from Christian fellowship and feeling very lonely, Margaret Clarkson (1915-2008) was a 23-year-old school teacher in a gold-mining camp town in northern Ontario, Canada. Friends and family far away, meditating on John 20:21 one evening, God spoke to her through the phrase “so send I you.” She realized that this lonely area was the place to which God had sent her, and quickly set down her thoughts in verse. Miss Clarkson authored many articles and poems for Christian and educational periodicals. Because of a physical disability, she had been unable to fulfill her early desire of going to a foreign mission field. Yet, accepting where she was, God used her to inspire many with her writings and today’s hymn. 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.
Posted on: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 13:29:02 +0000