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Come, Thou Fount of every blessing,
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise.
Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wand’ring from the face of God;
He, to save my soul from danger,
Interposed His precious blood.
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise.
Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wand’ring from the face of God;
He, to save my soul from danger,
Interposed His precious blood.
2
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.
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.
3
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it;
Prone to leave the God I love:
Take my heart, oh, take and seal it
With Thy Spirit from above.
Rescued thus from sin and danger,
Purchased by the Savior’s blood,
May I walk on earth a stranger,
As a son and heir of God.
Prone to leave the God I love:
Take my heart, oh, take and seal it
With Thy Spirit from above.
Rescued thus from sin and danger,
Purchased by the Savior’s blood,
May I walk on earth a stranger,
As a son and heir of God.
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Memphis, TN, United States
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
Isolo, Lagos, Nigeria
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....
Meriden, KS, United States
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.
Austin, Texas, United States
May I walk on earth a stranger,
As a son and heir of God!
Tustin, California, United States
Thank you for your abounding grace and mercy Lord far reaching me. Take control of my wandering heart seal me with your Spirit.
Waco, TX, United States
God's promise to the wanderer, the outcast: Neh. 1:9. Thank You, Father for "Streams of mercy, never ceasing."
New Haven, CT, United States
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!
Ohio, United States
"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.
Lagos, Nigeria
Today, I played this hymn on the organ as a processional for a wedding, to the tune Normandy. I was overwhelmed by the sheer force of the wordings:
‘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’.
Tirane, Albania
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.