Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing

This is my granddad's favorite hymn.  He always walks around the house whistling it.  Each verse speaks of something different.  The first verse speaks of Christ's blessing and mercy, and a plea of help to praise Him better.  The second verse speaks of Christ's help for us in our journey of life.  How He will protect us and how He rescued us when we were wandering.  The third verse speaks more of how we wander and a plea to Christ to help us.  It ends with a commitment of a life and heart to Christ.  Read it as a prayer, for it is speaking to the Fount of Every Blessing--Christ our Lord.  A little help with some of the words that are a little outdated or that you might not understand: The second verse begins with the phrase, "Here I raises mine Ebenezer, hither by Thine help I'm come."  What is an Ebenezer and what does that line mean?  An Ebenezer is a marker.  It means, "Stone of help."  Basically the line means that it is by Christ's grace that we have come as far as we have.  I raise my Ebenezer stating that I have come to this place only through the grace of Christ.  Also, you may not be familiar with the term fetter.  It means like a shackle or something that minds.  So the third verse is asking that God's grace bind us to Him.  Okay!  Enjoy this hymn!   

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.