Music Week, Day 6

(Christus, from lds.org)

Ah, Sunday. The song for this day is probably the favorite of my favorites. Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing, written in 1758. And I even found a YouTube video of it so you can hear it. Right here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUhU0HgTq94 It is of the BYU choirs singing it, back when Mack Wilberg was directing, and hadn't gone to direct the Mormon Tabernacle Choir yet. It's a video I've seen a few times in my life, and it's probably half the reason I love the song so much. So watch it! It's good! The music is beautiful, and the lyrics completely put into words my desires to be better, and my total reliance on Christ to be able to be better, and to help me erase when I've fallen short. I love it. Enjoy.

Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing

by Robert Robinson

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, (Hm? I googled it. Here's what I found.)

Hither by thy help I've come

And I hope, by thy good pleasure,

Safely to arrive at home,

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.

Jesus sought me when a stranger,

Wand'ring from the fold of God,

He, to rescue me from danger,

Interposed his precious blood,

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.

O to grace how great a debtor

Daily I'm constrained to be!

Let they 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.