“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
(Precious blood)
Oh, 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 days
Oh, 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, oh take and seal it
Seal it for Thy courts above
Here’s my heart
Oh take and seal it
Seal it for Thy courts above.
Story Behind:
“COME THOU FOUNT OF EVERY BLESSING”
“Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing” is an 18th-century hymn penned by Robert Robinson in 1758. Born of poverty and orphaned at a young age, Robinson was once a rebellious youth who attended a revival simply to mock the preacher. Instead, the sermon deeply convicted him. Three years after converting to Christianity.
22-year-old Robinson wrote to him to company his sermon about Pentecost.
The Lyrics and Their Meaning:
The hymn serves as a reflection on divine grace and human frailty. Notable themes in the verses include:
The “Ebenezer”: The lyric “Praise the mount—I’m fixed upon it, / Mount of Thy redeeming love” alludes to 1 Samuel 7:12. The prophet Samuel sets up a stone of remembrance and names it “Ebenezer,” meaning “stone of help,” to thank God for his faithfulness.
The Confession: The most famous line of the hymn—”Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, / Prone to leave the God I love”—acts as a raw, honest admission of humanity’s tendency to stray from faith.
-Debra
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