The Church’s seed is nought but Christ Himself

The Church’s seed is nought but Christ Himself

Sown into human hearts as life

thereby

Growing as wheat

producing flour fine

For bread both God and man to satisfy.

But Satan hath the false believers sown

Among the saints as tares among the wheat

To bring confusion and to hinder growth

That they may not fulfill God’s plan complete.

The Church’s life just as the herb must be

Grown out of Christ

who is the mustard seed;

Hidden and transient

little on the earth

But good for food the hungry ones to feed.

But Satan came and made the little herb

To change its nature and to change its form

That fully grown it did a tree become

Where many evil ones may lodge and swarm.

Satan has also used the fallen “church”

Evil and heathen practice to include

As leaven mingled with the meal of wheat

Thus to corrupt its purity as food.

But Christ as life would so transform the saints

That they may be as pearl and precious stone

As the materials suitable to build

Into His Church to make His Kingdom known.

Such an assembly grown in Christ as life

Transformed and built with Christ in them annealed

Is as the goodly pearl for preciousness

And as the treasure hidden in the field.

Lord

separate us from the devil’s “tares

”

Each one deliver from the monstrous “tree

”

From all the “leaven” may Thou purify

That we may be as food to man and Thee.

Cause us to grow in life divine each day

That we may be transformed and built by Thee

Into a body to express Thyself

That Thou in us Thy Church and Kingdom see.