COME LORD JESUS COME

COME LORD JESUS COME

I came the first time to stay

And was born in a manger lay

I lived but a very few years

Broken, beaten and filled with tears

I was God’s love to you wonderfully shown

That He might be placed on your heart’s throne

I spoke of love and forgiveness and peace

I died that sin and hatred might cease

I come each day anew in special places

And in the people of many races

I come to you in the weak and old

I come to you in the unloving and cold

I come to you in people with bitter hearts

I come to you in those with evil parts

I come to you in those loving and fair

I come to you in those who truly care

I come to you in ones called by me

I come to you in ones that help you see

I come to you but you cannot see

That in each of you dwells a part of me

I weep before My Father tears of pain

Because I’m hidden from the world

By each act that dims My light

And keeps others from seeing My love

Unless others can find Me in you

They will never have truly found Me

For I am in the least of these

As well as in all of the rest

But to love only those that reflect yourself

Is to not really to have known Me

You tell me to come each Christmas

But only in the form you wish Me to take

So out of Me I can be what you’ll make

I came as a babe tis true

But I am also Lord over you

I ask you to truly let Me come

In any form and experience love

For then will the kingdom of heaven

Have reached down and touched earth