The Fount

Dear friend,


Did you have a nice weekend?  I sure did.  We ended up having an impromptu visit to Jered's family's house.  While I enjoyed some girl time with Jessica, Kelly, and Beth, Jered got some much needed basketball and more importantly, hunting time.  He really needs to get out of doors more often.

We sang three of my favorite songs in church this week.

The first was Our God- which admittedly, I have sung in confusion, and often through tears as I sing lyrics that proclaim our God is healer and awesome in power.  I believe with my whole heart that it's true, but it's still hard to realize that sometimes God's plans are different than my own.

The second was In Christ Alone.  It gives me chills every. single. time.  No power of hell, no scheme of man could ever pluck me from His hand.  Til He returns, or calls me home, here in the power of Christ I stand.  Gosh, I don't even know what to say about that one, except that if you don't know the lyrics to it- look them up real quick.  Life-altering words.

We watched a video about the writer of the last song.  Turns out it was written by Robert Robinson, to which I initially thought, "Who would name their kid that?"  Then I learned that he was a man from the 1700s and had his life greatly changed by God.  They revealed that the song was Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing.  This song is one that I don't think of often, but when it does come up on the Sunday morning worship list, it always breaks my heart.

Come thou fount of every blessing
Tune my heart to sing thy grace
Streams of mercy never ceasing
Call for songs of loudest praise

I love that it points out that God's mercy demands our loudest praise.

Teach me some melodious sonnet
Sung by flaming tongues above.
Praise His Name I'm fixed upon it
Name of God's redeeming love.

Won't it be wonderful when the angels are teaching us new worship songs?  Wow- what a picture in my head!  The second half creates so much conviction in me- I want to be wholly fixed on that name.

Hither to thy love has blessed me
Thou has brought me to this place
And I know thy hand will bring me
Safely home by thy good grace

He has blessed me in so many ways.  If it weren't for how He's worked in my life, I think I would be in a totally different place right now.

Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wandering from the fold of God;
He, to rescue me from danger,
Bought me with His precious blood.

He desired to save strangers from the ultimate danger- eternity away from God.  He saved me when I had done nothing to deserve His smallest attention.

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:

I could never be "even" with Him for what He has done.  I will always be a debtor to Him.  

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

Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, Prone to leave the God I love!  To know that in the depths of my heart, I will always be prone to sin, to leave this God who has so mercifully saved me, is absolutely heartbreaking.  How fitting that it ends with a prayer for God to "take and seal" my heart for Him.

Do you get why I love this song even when it breaks my heart so much?  It's just a "wow" moment for me every time I think about those lyrics.

Well friend, that's really all I have to write to you about today.  Hopefully I will talk to you again soon.

Aim