Monday, January 21, 2013
The Summons
The Summons
John L. Bell & Graham Maule
Will you come and follow me if I but call your name?
Will you go where you don't know and never be the same?
Will you let my love be shown? Will you let my name be known,
will you let my life be grown in you and you in me?
Will you leave yourself behind if I but call your name?
Will you care for cruel and kind and never be the same?
Will you risk the hostile stare should your life attract or scare?
Will you let me answer prayer in you and you in me?
Will you let the blinded see if I but call your name?
Will you set the prisoners free and never be the same?
Will you kiss the leper clean and do such as this unseen,
and admit to what I mean in you and you in me?
Will you love the "you" you hide if I but call your name?
Will you quell the fear inside and never be the same?
Will you use the faith you've found to reshape the world around,
through my sight and touch and sound in you and you in me?
Lord your summons echoes true when you but call my name.
Let me turn and follow you and never be the same.
In Your company I'll go where Your love and footsteps show.
Thus I'll move and live and grow in you and you in me.
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Angelic hymn that always brings me close to Christ
ReplyDeleteIndeed! :)
DeleteThis song brings me to tears every single time...
DeleteIt's a nice song, but I can never find good guitar chords for it! D:
ReplyDeleteWhat I do is capo 4. G-D-Em—C-D— And pretty much repeat that
DeleteThis song touches my heart in a special way. Makes my faith come alive.
DeleteI use Capo 5:
DeleteC- G- Am- F- G
C- G- Am- F- G- C
F- G- Am
Em- F- G
C- G- Am- F- G- C
I did this today as cantor in church, love it
ReplyDeleteYes this is a beautiful song.... my husband played the piano & we just sang it.... I was in tears by the end of the song.
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ReplyDeleteI cry to this song and I am not a big crier but this is an emotional one for me.
ReplyDeleteActually chose this song for my father's funeral. What better way to console then to meditate on God "summoning" him home.
ReplyDeleteI think your Dad must have been smiling and reflecting on your great love.
DeleteUsing this in a sermon this weekend... Would you go if "called"?
ReplyDeletethis song makes me cry every time....
ReplyDeleteThis song makes me feel at home in my Church and makes me feel closer to God.
ReplyDeleteLove it sad song
ReplyDeleteallelua. "Occupy till I come" Luke 19:13 ....well worth lookinh up all the translations you can ... be blessed, all who read this. Maranatha, Jesus is coming soon ......OCCUPY :) :)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful beautiful words...
ReplyDeleteSo tender as is the Holy spirit
Song that I play over & over again with my Spotify
ReplyDeleteLove it almost made me cry
ReplyDeleteTears of joy!��
Beautiful no words to describe
ReplyDeleteCould you happen to tell me the copyright status of this? I would like to include a line or two in a story I am writing.
ReplyDeleteI heard this song being sung by a choir of Nuns, and have not been able to get it off my mind. I listen to it everyday and try to live it, quite challenging, to say the least. Beautiful song!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE the summons!
ReplyDeleteME TOO!
Deleteone of my favorites <3
ReplyDeleteSo much beautiful. Love it!
ReplyDeleteThe summons to All believers. A call to reconcile the lost as reconciled.
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ReplyDeleteI can't sing this without crying every time....Why is that I wonder...What is it that we are feeling in this piece? If the whole world could sing this song and feel this way..."it would never be the same."
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