I’ve been listening to Jadon Lavik’s version of the song below a lot lately. It’s speaking to me. What insight a pastor from 1757 who penned this hymn had even today into my heart.
I’ve made bold the parts which speak to me most (and made super bold the line which rocks my world).
Come, Thou Fount of every blessing
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace
Streams of mercy, never ceasing
Call for songs of loudest praise
Teach me some melodious sonnet
Sung by flaming tongues above
Praise the mount, I’m fixed upon it
Mount of Thy unchanging love
Here I raise my Ebenezer
Here there by Thy great help I’ve come
And I hope, by Thy good pleasure
Safely to arrive at home
Jesus sought me when a stranger
Wandering from the fold of God
He, to rescue me from danger
Interposed His precious blood
O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I’m constrained to be
Let that grace now, like a fetter
Bind my wandering heart to Thee
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it
Prone to leave the God I love
Here’s my heart, O take and seal it
Seal it for Thy courts above
Come, Thou Fount of every blessing
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace
Streams of mercy, never ceasing
Call for songs of loudest praise
Teach me some melodious sonnet
Sung by flaming tongues above
Praise the mount, I’m fixed upon it
Mount of Thy unchanging love
Which phrases speak to you most?
"Tune my heart to sing Thy grace" – Our hear is prone to drift away from God, and He is the only one who can install a lasting change to tune our hearts.
Amen
Twitter: bryankr
says:
I started to notice, some(?) years ago, that there were hymns I was singing in Church and had no idea what they said! I started reading the words instead of singing and found myself in tears!! So many songs with such great treasures of theology in them, and I was singing right through them and getting bored! I could not believe what I was missing! Now, the hard part is trying to sing them without crying.
This is one of those hymns!
Yes!