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Come, Thou Fount of every blessing
Tune my heart to sing Thy praise
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
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 Lord take and seal it
Seal it for Thy courts above.
If you know much about me, you know I'm not much of one for hymns. Coming from a very traditional Catholic upbringing, I'm not a fan of being flung back into the traditional. That being said, this hymn is beautiful.
This song has been on my heart all week. We've sung it a few times during worship with IV, but the profound simplicity never really hit me until lately. This sums up everything I have been feeling lately.
God is teaching me daily how to run after Him, to praise Him at all times, and to trust completely in Him.
In church today, we got a wonderful sermon about God's truth, God's goodness, and God's beauty. As bad as it may sound, I am most prone to question God's goodness. After everything I have been through in the past few years, the events in my life have really left me questioning His goodness. After all, if He was so good, why would He let me go through all the pain I've been through? And it was everything I needed to hear. It convinced me to press further into Him all the time. I really just need to see God's infinite goodness and mercy as shown through Christ. I need to spend more time with Him, worshipping Him, praising Him, and just having a conversation with Him!
I know eventually, God's goodness with show in my life too! I just need to continue to put my focus on Him. Even when I can't see it, when I can't feel it, He is there, guiding me and leading me, and loving me. And for this, I am eternally grateful!
