Hymn post: "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 His Name! I’m fixed upon it!

Name of God’s redeeming love.

Hitherto 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.

Jesus sought me when a stranger,

Wandering from the fold of God;

He, to rescue me from danger,

Bought me with 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, O take and seal it;

Seal it for Thy courts above.

NEWS FLASH!!: We have wandering hearts!! 

Paul says “the good I want to do, I don’t. The one I don’t want to do, I do.” (Romans 7:18-19). How epic fails our hearts can be – disloyal when all that is expected of us is loyalty to the Precious Lord who saved our souls when we were at our worst!!

What then? Are we doomed? Is this a helpless cause? No! Then what CAN we do in light of all this? I believe as the hymn states:

1) Admit that we are wanderers and weak in our own strength to resist temptation and other straying (doing our own thing instead of God’s) – we can’t get it right on our own!

2) When we do wander, confess it to God.

“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness” – 1 John 1:9

3) Submit our hearts (affections, desires, focus and energies) to God regularly and ask Him to direct them – that our treasure might be Him (Matthew 6) and His purposes.