http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqKwSffyr2k
Oh, and the hymn is "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing." The words are lovely and wonderful so I will share them here.
1. 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.
2. Here I raise mine *Ebenezer;
hither by thy help I'm 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.
3. 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.
* For an eloquent explanation of what Ebenezer means, click here. My church's hymnal omits
verse 2, which is a shame because the phrase about Jesus's blood rescuing us from danger
(of all sorts) is striking and true.
3 comments:
That is one of my all time favorite hymns!
It's funny, because this is another of my friend's favorite hymns and I just recently heard it myself for what I think is the first time. And now all of a sudden, I am hearing it everywhere. It is beautiful.
That is my favorite hymn as well. I have a great instrumental version of it by Mark Gelison that I love to listen to.
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