A Poem a Sunday

Pentecost 7 – A

July 23, 2017

St. Matthew 13:24-43 - NRSV

The Parable of Weeds among the Wheat

24 He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to someone who sowed good seed in his field; 25 but while everybody was asleep, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and then went away. 26 So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared as well. 27 And the slaves of the householder came and said to him, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Where, then, did these weeds come from?’ 28 He answered, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The slaves said to him, ‘Then do you want us to go and gather them?’ 29 But he replied, ‘No; for in gathering the weeds you would uproot the wheat along with them. 30 Let both of them grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Collect the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.’”

A Poem a Sunday

Pentecost 7 – A

Can be sung to hymn tune

CWM RHONDDA 8787877

“God of Grace and God of Glory”

The New Century Hymnal #436

Evangelical Lutheran Worship #705

                         

Uprooted

1. God of judgment, God of mercy

show us our complicity

to the evil that surrounds us.

Change our hearts and set us free.

Refrain:

God now sow for the good harvest.

Uproot all that does us harm;

Uproot all that does us harm.

2. Weeds among the wheat we live in,

daily lives amidst the hurt.

Give us insight, give us courage

to confess what we deserve.

Refrain

3. Rain upon us justice and grace,

hope for change and your new way

to ov’rcome the evil in us

power to stand the disarray.

Refrain

4. As we join today in worship

shape our lives empowered by grace

to be Christ to friend and stranger

mocking evil’s gruesome face.

Refrain

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