WOULD YOU CARE

Would you fast? or would you pray?
If your child was called away,
To labor on the mission field,
For God's kingdom, to help build?

If God should call that infant son,
Or perhaps your only one,
Or your daughter sweet and fair,
Would you hold them up in prayer?

Have you thought, He may call you?
The field is large, the laborers few,
Suppose some day as you kneel in prayer,
His voice will say, "Go over there."

Would you expect the church to do,
No more for you, than you now do?
Would you like to wait in rain, my friend,
For a check or box that they should send?

Let's back that man that's over there,
Let's not forget his need in prayer,
And fast and give a little more,
Than we have ever given before.

God gives to us a fresh green spring,
And a bright and brilliant fall,
But when He gave His only Son,
He gave the best of all.

He gave us hearing, touch and taste,
And He gives us wondrous sight,
And another gift He gave to man,
Was the choice to do what's right.

AUTHOR: Margaret Shankland