Seed to Save

"Thou, O LORD, art a Shield for me; my Glory, and the Lifter up of mine head… Salvation belongeth unto the LORD" (Psalm 3:3,8).  "Certain Greeks… came up to worship… saying, Sir, we would see Jesus… Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of Man should be glorified.  Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit… And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me" (John 12:20-32).

The Lord has been for us a Shield;

He is our Glory and Salvation,

The First Fruit of the harvest field

Who rescued us from condemnation.

We echo what the Greeks once said:

"We would see Jesus!" nothing more. 

He is the Lifter of our head,

The only One whom we adore.

The time had come for Jesus then

To suffer and be glorified;

A corn of wheat bears much fruit when

Its Seed is planted and has died. 

O Lord, this portrait that You gave

Displays Your triumph in the strife:

You are the Seed who died to save

The souls who gain eternal life!