Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
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 redeeming love.
Sorrowing I shall be in spirit,
Till released from flesh and sin,
Yet from what I do inherit,
Here Thy praises I’ll begin;
Here I raise my Ebenezer;
Here 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;
How His kindness yet pursues me
Mortal tongue can never tell,
Clothed in flesh, till death shall loose me
I cannot proclaim it well.
O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I’m constrained to be!
Let Thy goodness, 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.
O that day when freed from sinning,
I shall see Thy lovely face;
Clothed then in blood washed linen
How I’ll sing Thy sovereign grace;
Come, my Lord, no longer tarry,
Take my ransomed soul away;
Send thine angels now to carry
Me to realms of endless day.
Words by Robert Robinson, 1758
The Happy Wonderer ~ ellen b. 
Mt praise team is singing that one tomorrow 🙂 I think I’ll look around for fountain backgrounds.
My – not Mt. 🙂
How His kindness yet pursues me
Wow!
This one just might be my all-time favorite hymn! It certainly is in the top ten. I love it, Ellen!
One of my favorite hymns. I like the Warrenton Version the best because it has a course.
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace,
O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I’m constrained to be!
Those are my favorite lines of this great old hymn.
One of my favorite hymns! I’m humming it. Love both of those Ventura County fountains: San Buena Ventura Mission and Garden of the World.
O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I’m constrained to be!
Let Thy goodness, 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.
This is my favorite hymn in life!!!
The first time I heard it was several years ago at a woman’s retreat and I felt like my heart had been pierced through.
Later that day I went into an antiques store and it was playing on the sound system. Twice in one day this little hymn popped into my life.
I’m the one who wanders and needs to have my heart bound to the alter.
Thankfully I never wander too far or for too long. I know who I was before He captured my heart and I didn’t like that girl at all.
Ellen B. I hope you have a wonderful Sunday. How was the seminar?
perfect for this beautiful sunday morning.
btw, we’re in palm springs right now! heading home today …
Amen! How I do love the old hymns with their deep and abiding message.
Hello Ellen, a favorite hymn. Thanks for posting it. As I have been away for awhile I enjoyed looking back through some of your recent posts too. Glad to see what and who you have been enjoying 🙂 Blessings!
If you drive by, Ellen, be sure to stop — I’ll have a cuppa tea ready for you!
LaTeaDah
Beautiful visual of a wonderful hymn!
A wonderful hymn Ellen…Thank you! It seems as if it has been a while since I visited. Your posts are marvelous…just love all the photos, especially the heron and the poem.
Thanks for your visit to my Sunday Psalm. Yes, I am indeed in NY with my daughter and her little family. Such joy to see them again! Such fun getting over the jetlag!
We had a mini hymn sing at church last night. This was one of the picks. My youngest was ecstatic because it’s a much loved hymn for our family. I’m grateful for my sons’ love for the old classic hymns. I pray they will be a reminding and abiding comfort of the truths found in Scripture throughout their lives.
That’s like an all time favorite for me – my favorite stanza is:
O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I’m constrained to be!
Let Thy goodness, 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.
Oh, what a beautiful thing to have my heart seal for the heavenly courts!
Blessings!
My favorite part is the chorus:
I am bound for the kingdom.
Will you go to glory with me?
Hallelujah Praise the Lord!
Thanks for posting Robert Robinson’s great hymn. “Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it– / Prone to leave the God I love” was more than poetry for him. It was a personal testimony. Later in life, he drifted away from the Lord. It was his own hymn that helped to bring him back. To learn how it happened, check out my blog for June 9th. God bless.