The Lord, the seed of life, has sown

The Lord

the seed of life

Has sown Himself into our heart

To grow up into fullness

And become His counterpart.

The seed requires no rules or forms

For water is its need—

By this the all-inclusive seed

Will grow in us indeed!

The seed is simply Jesus!

Oh

Jesus lives in me!

And by His growth this seed

in us will reach maturity.

The growth of Christ

the seed

in us

Will soon produce the wheat

The life within break forth—yet work

Divine is not complete;

For wheat alone can never be

The seed’s expression true;

So all the grains must blend together

Into something new.

The seed is simply Jesus;

Now wheat is Jesus too!

The grains of wheat must blend

Together into something new.

The individual grains of wheat

No longer must be free

But crushed together

ground to powder

Every grain must be

Until the wheat becomes the meal

From which the loaf is formed

Till all the saints will blend and to

His Body be conformed.

We all must take the grinding

until the Christ within

Can mold into His Body all the

individual grains.

The seed is planted

wheat is grown

And meal is the sum

Of all the growth upon God’s farm

Where Christians grow as one;

But all the growth in life is for

The building of the church

That God and man may have a home

And both may end their search.

The farm is for the building

for God and man a home

Where both may dwell among

His people gathered into one.

God’s building is produced by silver

Precious stones

and gold—

From meal through transformation

Pressure

heat

and pain untold.

The meal must not be satisfied

To stay as meal alone

But must submit to transformation

Into precious stone.

The meal must pass through suffering

that precious stones be formed;

Then built into God’s building

to His

purpose full conformed.

From fullest growth and transformation

Comes a pearl of worth;

This simple

precious

all-inclusive

Gem will then come forth.

Conceived in death and formed in life

By that all-glorious One

The church

His Bride

the fruit of all

The work that He has done.

The pearl is what He’s after

the Bride to please His heart

So single

pure and precious

and His very counterpart.

The growth in life begins when planted

On God’s farm we’re found:

The growing seed becomes the wheat

From which the meal is ground.

But building work proceeds when meal

Submits to be transformed;

Then gold and silver

precious stones

For building will be formed.

The farm is for the building

built up by precious stones

From which the priceless pearl comes

forth to be His Bride

His own.

Lord

keep us poor in spirit

Pure in heart that we may be

Good ground in which the seed of life

May grow abundantly

Until the final stage is reached

And You are satisfied

And have Your priceless

chosen pearl

Your joy complete

Your Bride.

Lord

keep us poor in spirit

and purified in heart

That growing up in us You may

bring forth Your counterpart.