Come, Thou Fount of every blessing

Apparently there were two Robert Robinsons living at the same time in England in the 1700s. Both were dissenters from the Anglican Church. It seems a little unclear about who wrote this hymn and if the story is even true. (Hopefully one of my more knowledgeable ancient-hymn writer friends can clarify this mystery. ) At any rate, what struck me this morning was the phrase, “tune my heart to sing Thy praise. ” It hit me that as followers of the Lord, we sometimes get off track or down in the dumps and that it may be because we get “out of tune“ with God. So it’s very appropriate for us to ask Him to put our hearts and lives back “in tune” with him!

L. Codington

Once we were not a people, now we are. Once we had not received Mercy , now we have. Bless God for the gift of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, He has transferred us from the Kingdom of darkness to the Kingdom of His dear Son

It is interesting that we find no reference in the New Testament that we owe anything to God and not even to HIS grace. If we did it would only be a debt of Love - which we cannot pay. But then God never says we are debtors to him because he knows we cannot pay a debt. That is the essence of Grace, it is all God's doing, based upon HIS character and not upon ours. We are saved by God's grace through our faith and we are kept by God's grace alone. Therefore, all God requires is faith alone in Christ alone. Our part is simply to believe in him and what he has done by dying to pay for our sins and being raised from the dead. ONLY BELIEVE ! Anything more than faith is works and God does not recognize our efforts to justify ourselves by doing anything. 1 Corinthians 15:1-4/ Ephesians 2:8 and 9 / Acts 16:30 31

I love this song make me think of Loving Our GOD is to have sent Jesus Christ to die for our sins.. ... take my heart Lord, take and seal it .. seal it for the court above....

A beautiful Celtic version of this song. Search on YouTube for “Come Thou Fount Celtic Worship” and you’ll find it.

I listened to it then began reading your comments from around the world. So uplifting and exalting to our Lord Jesus.

May I walk on earth a stranger,

As a son and heir of God!

Thank you for your abounding grace and mercy Lord far reaching me. Take control of my wandering heart seal me with your Spirit.

God's promise to the wanderer, the outcast: Neh. 1:9. Thank You, Father for "Streams of mercy, never ceasing."

This hymn starts with “ Come thou fount of every blessing, Tune my heart to sing thy praise”. The theme is to come to the Lord, and to “meet” our Lord in a personal way. Second stanza goes

“O to grace how great a debtor
  Daily I’m constrained to be!
Let that grace, Lord, like a fetter,
  Bind my wand’ring heart to Thee.
Teach me, Lord, some rapturous measure,
  Meet for me Thy grace to prove,
While I sing the countless treasure
  Of my God’s unchanging love. ”

“Meet” here is very meaningful. The writer is asking the Lord to teach him some rapturous measure in his praise, specifically he desires to “meet” with the Lord, to come face to face with the Lord, and to be joined with the Lord. Such an encounter with the Lord is indeed rapturous! By fully opening to the Lord as the all-sufficient one, the Lord can then dispense Himself into us to “meet” our needs in all our situations (prone to wonder, prone to leave the God I love, and walking on this earth as a stranger - stanza 3), so we can prove that we live because of the grace of God.

This theme of desiring to “meet” with the Lord, to come face to face with the Lord, even to join ourselves with the Lord, is richly expressed in other parts of the hymn, such as “Let that grace, Lord, like a fetter, Bind my wand’ring heart to Thee”, and “Take my heart, oh, take and seal it, With Thy Spirit from above”.

Oh Lord develop such a strong desire in me to meet with You every day, to come to You face to face, even to be joined as one with You!

"He, to save my soul from danger,
Interposed His precious blood"
"Rescued thus from sin and danger,
Purchased by the Savior’s blood,"

THE BLOOD OF JESUS kills covid and covers us with HIS everlasting unconditional Love, Grace and Mercy. We are purchased by THE BLOOD OF JESUS and HE saved us from our sins. JESUS overcame the world, nothing can hurt us. HE never leaves us nor forsakes us and HE knows all things.

JESUS IS THE ANSWER FOR EVERYTHING.

PRAISE AND THANK THE LORD FOREVER.