March 26 2008
Exposition of Come Thou Fount, in view of God’s mercy (Part 1)
Tagged Under : Come Thou Fount, E-pop, exposition, grace, lyrics, scripture, songwriting
Come Thou Fount is one of the greatest songs of God’s grace I’ve come across. It’s lyrics are challenging, thought provoking, honest, desperate, vulnerable, humbling and encouraging. I’ve probably listened to the E-Pop version about 100 times the last few months. I literally cry every time, it is gut wrenchingly sweet and full of truth. I wanted to do a little series on here breaking it down line by line. And what God speaks to me, convicts me on in each line. It’s always evolving and right when I think I’ve received a good glimpse of God’s grace, He goes deeper, His grace expands, deepens and I see God for who He is and me for who I am in ever clearing sight. The first line is this:
“Come thou fount of every blessing, tune my heart to sing thy grace”
God led me to this scripture in John 1:16, “From the fullness of His grace we have received one blessing after another”. Through grace I have received continued blessings. This line challenges me to put into proper perspective my life, past, present and future. That everything good, every blessing has it’s origin in grace. From the breath of life to the birth of my children, God has extended abundant grace the depths of which I can’t comprehend but pray for God to reveal.
That in response to grace that my heart would be tuned to sing thy grace. God has created in me a new heart that thirsts for him. Out of the overflow and outpouring of my heart, my mouth would sing thy grace, how could it not. I can testify now that is my deepest desire, that my life would be a song of God’s grace. By His grace my heart be tuned, molded, formed that the outpouring of my life would be a song of grace, love and hope.
I love that this line demonstrates everything empowered by God. We the believer accomplished nothing here. God in his goodness gives us every blessing, then in continued grace tune’s our hearts that we may reflect that very grace. Stay tuned(no pun intended) for line 2 tomorrow.
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[...] Yesterday we explored line one of Come Thou Font. Today I’m going to look into the second line which proclaims: [...]
Bro,
The grace of God is rocking me right now! I have been so humbled by Him and realizing that I have been arrogant and prideful and so self righteous but thanks be to God’s grace and looking back over my life and realizing that all the good that has come from my life has been a result of His grace. It does make me want to sing of His grace. It does invoke a song… God is soooooo great! Lord, let this house be responsive house in worship because we have a revelation of your grace. Let our songs reflect that fact that we are thankful for your grace.