Begging Borrower

Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.

Matthew 5:42

I am poor 

I am vulnerable

I have nothing to offer

Your grace to proffer

Yet You are rich

You are capable

You reach out to my poverty

give Yourself extravagantly

Lord, I lack everything

Yet You pour out to to me

treasures of Your redeeming love

found in a Savior come from above

Now my soul is filled

in Your raining mercy

I am called to be complete

as I sit rich now at Your feet

Others still are beggars

others are still in great need

fill me with love to care

meet their need in me, bring You there

When I needed

Lord, You gave to me

so with gospel truth from my heart

help me to be generous from the start

In my giving

may I see clearly

not the begging, but You meeting their need

so that Your grace, their poverty may exceed.