"Lord of the Small" has always been a moving text for me. Well-known composer Dan Forrest used it in 2010 when asked to honor the memory of 10-year-old cancer victim Erin Buenger.
Erin Buenger (Bryan, TX) fought cancer for most of her short life. cncfhope.org/CNCF_Hero_Erin_Buenger
It was especially moving this week.
This past weekend many of our members attended unexpected funerals, including one of a teen. Sunday we celebrated our part in gospel outreach to "the wretch in the street," as the text puts it, through Miracle Hill Ministries.
Many of the songs we present to the congregation get chosen several weeks beforehand so that we can prepare them well, and this was one of those. Yet God directed us to hear it this week.
God doesn’t choose us because we were great (Deut. 7:7). Instead He chooses the people who are small and weak in this world to shame the strong, great ones (1 Cor. 1:27). Truly we have "been given so much and can so little give." Praise to the Lord of the small.
In Christ,
Todd Jones
Music Pastor
Lord of the Small
Praise to the Lord of the small broken things,
Who sees the poor sparrow that cannot take wing,
Who loves the lame child and the wretch in the street,
Who comforts their sorrows and washes their feet.
Praise to the Lord of the faint and afraid,
Who girds them with courage and lends them His aid,
He pours out his spirit on vessels so weak
That the timid can serve and the silent can speak.
Praise to the Lord of the frail and the ill,
Who heals their afflictions or carries them till
They leave this tired frame and to paradise fly,
To never be sick and never to die.
Praise him, O praise Him all ye who yet live,
Who’ve been given so much and can so little give.
Our frail, lisping praise God will never despise.
He sees His dear children through mercy-filled eyes.-Johanna Anderson