It seemed as if the Lord lived still
It seemed as if the Lord lived still,
expressed his will, the lame could walk,
and all assumed the blind would see,
the silent ones would start to talk!
Yet all they saw when looking round,
were Galilean fisher folk,
a zealot and some other men,
some hazarded it was a joke.
So Peter had to put them right,
the crucified, the buried dead,
the very Christ, their God was raised,
yet now they acted in God’s stead.
And everywhere the spirit blows
the living Christ and God’s own grace
is manifest by human means
in every later time and space.
Plain ignorance and human zeal,
had nailed their God, had knocked love down,
but that could never be the end,
and love still lived to wear the crown.
So everywhere God’s people meet
through prayer and action God is there,
and even in this time and place
our lives can tend and bring God’s care.
Andrew Pratt 17/3/2012
Words © 2012 © Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England copyright@stainer.co.uk . Please include any reproduction for local church use on your CCL Licence returns. All wider and any commercial use requires prior application to Stainer & Bell Ltd
Tune: BEFORE THE THRONE StF 717
Metre: DLM
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