Saturday, August 22, 2009, 6:10 a.m. – I woke to this song:
Come, Thou Fount / Robert Robinson / John Wyeth
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.
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.
I woke with a throbbing headache – like ones I get when a bad storm is coming. And, I still have the headache. Lord, take over for my head, I pray in Jesus’ name.
Our youngest son (US Army) moved his wife and two children back to RH yesterday. He is set to redeploy to Afghanistan in another week. We now have all of our children and grandchildren in town (all 17 of us – number 18 is on the way). I wish our son could stay, too.
A young woman and family friend was in town yesterday. She came over to the house. After everything had quieted down and it was about time to wrap it up for the night, she started talking about God, so I asked her about her relationship with the Lord. She stated that it is an “on again and off again” kind of relationship. So, we talked about that at length. She is really battling her flesh and her reactions to difficult circumstances in her life. She frequently questions God and she feels as though she has no future because of her past. I assured her of God’s grace and forgiveness and that he could, indeed, give her a new, fresh beginning. I know that from personal experience, because God did that for me, I told her.
Just as I wrote this, I remembered the title to the hymn (above). Prior to this, all I could remember was the last half of the last verse where it begins “Prone to wander…” Now I could look up the hymn and read how it begins by talking about God’s grace and mercy. Amen! Even though we are prone to wander; prone to leave the God we love, his grace and his mercy are sufficient! We just have to surrender.
Oh, my head hurts really badly! Lord, take over for my head, I pray in Jesus’ name. This is definitely a sinus pressure headache and it is making me sick in my stomach.
Our DIL, Faith’s 30th birthday party is this evening. Our whole family will be there, as well as will be her family and friends. My head is not throbbing at the moment – thank you, Jesus!!
Lord, order up my day for me today. Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening. I read Lamentations 1, and it fits so well with this hymn and with what I just shared.
To be continued...http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=11043
Come, Thou Fount / Robert Robinson / John Wyeth
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.
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.
I woke with a throbbing headache – like ones I get when a bad storm is coming. And, I still have the headache. Lord, take over for my head, I pray in Jesus’ name.
Our youngest son (US Army) moved his wife and two children back to RH yesterday. He is set to redeploy to Afghanistan in another week. We now have all of our children and grandchildren in town (all 17 of us – number 18 is on the way). I wish our son could stay, too.
A young woman and family friend was in town yesterday. She came over to the house. After everything had quieted down and it was about time to wrap it up for the night, she started talking about God, so I asked her about her relationship with the Lord. She stated that it is an “on again and off again” kind of relationship. So, we talked about that at length. She is really battling her flesh and her reactions to difficult circumstances in her life. She frequently questions God and she feels as though she has no future because of her past. I assured her of God’s grace and forgiveness and that he could, indeed, give her a new, fresh beginning. I know that from personal experience, because God did that for me, I told her.
Just as I wrote this, I remembered the title to the hymn (above). Prior to this, all I could remember was the last half of the last verse where it begins “Prone to wander…” Now I could look up the hymn and read how it begins by talking about God’s grace and mercy. Amen! Even though we are prone to wander; prone to leave the God we love, his grace and his mercy are sufficient! We just have to surrender.
Oh, my head hurts really badly! Lord, take over for my head, I pray in Jesus’ name. This is definitely a sinus pressure headache and it is making me sick in my stomach.
Our DIL, Faith’s 30th birthday party is this evening. Our whole family will be there, as well as will be her family and friends. My head is not throbbing at the moment – thank you, Jesus!!
Lord, order up my day for me today. Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening. I read Lamentations 1, and it fits so well with this hymn and with what I just shared.
To be continued...http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=11043