Wednesday Worship - September 9, 2015

Welcome to my new weekly feature, Wednesday Worship, where I will share lyrics to a hymn, and a link for listening.

During my early years as a new believer, I was blessed with attending a church where hymns were sung.  We, of course, sang during Sunday morning worship, but I especially loved Sunday evening service where we devoted a half hour to sing hymns which members of the congregation would request.  Our church also participated in monthly hymn sings with local churches.  My husband and I also used to attend a conference right around Reformation Sunday which was held in a church whose sanctuary had amazing acoustics!  We would always sing, A Mighty Fortress.  Between the sound of the organ and all the voices lifted in worship, it was as close to Heaven as one could feel!  :-)

And so my love for hymns began and flourished!

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I have had many of you kind and gracious bloggers visit and comment on how much you enjoy the music that plays in the background of my blog.  My first two installments of Wednesday Worship will spotlight each of those hymns.

Today's spotlight: 

Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing

Robert Robinson  (1735-1790)

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.

Such incredible words of hope found in this hymn.

Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing has always grabbed at my heart.  Especially the following stanza which is essentially the "song of my heart's desire"...

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 hymn struck me deeper still while watching the movie "Love Comes Softly" when Clark, sitting on the hill with his dog, sings this stanza to the Lord in humble worship.  It was the perfect song- picture of the deep groaning of my own heart.

Please enjoy this heartfelt version of Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing by Bill and Gloria Gaither featuring Buddy Greene and Jeff Taylor.

 May the Lord bind our wandering hearts to His...

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