As a Joy and an Encouragement

In Colossians 3:16, Paul tells us, Let the word of Christ dwell richly among you, in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another through psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.   I want to share with you the hymn we sang on Sunday both as a joy and an encouragement to you.  It’s called Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing.  Since you would never forgive me if I sang it, I will read the lyrics to you.  

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

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

On that day when freed from sinning
 I shall see Thy lovely face Clothed then in the blood washed linen
 How I’ll sing Thy wondrous grace
 Come, my Lord, no longer tarry
 Take my ransomed soul away
 Send Thine angels now to carry
 Me to realms of endless day

 Oh, to grace how great a debtor
 Daily I’m constrained to be
 Let that 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, oh, take and seal it
 Seal it for Thy courts above

This is one of those hymns that immediately puts my soul in serenity mode.  Both the melody and the cadence is lovely.  If you want some backstory on ‘raising my Ebenezer,’ you’ll have to go to 1 Samuel 7:12.  

Go to Lifting Her Voice.com and tell me the story there.