"Come, Though, Fount of every blessing, tune my heart to sing Thy praise. 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 mine Ebenezer, hither by Thy help I'm come. And I hope, by Thy good pleasure, safely to arrive at home. Jesus called me when a stranger, wandering from the fold of God. He, to rescue me from danger, interposed His precious blood!
Oh, 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, oh, take and seal it. Seal it for Thy courts above!"
This hymn has been floating through my mind lately...
I am in the process of establishing a new blog on our church's website and this song seems to be the theme my heart keeps coming back to when I think about what I want to base my blog on.
I have decided to call my blog, "My Ebenezer," because I want my theme to be, "Praise God!!!" He has done so much for me... the song says it all, really, but it's not just WORDS... it's my heart-song.
It's like someone looked into my heart and wrote about it soooo long ago, maybe 100 years ago, even, I can't remember the date of the authorship of the hymn... I suppose every Christian feels this in their hearts, at some point, or multiple points, or from the point of salvation.
For me, I feel it at various points. I want to feel it all the time, and I will say that as I grow in my walk with the Lord I do feel it more and more. It's amazing to me, the peace that God has, that He wants me to rest in, secure and safe from the world's vices and harms.
What a God!
Yes, I am constrained to be a debtor... but nothing I can do can ever add up to the sum of the cross, and He doesn't want me to try! He wants my heart, and He gives me the power to lay it at His feet when I cannot myself. His grace is endless and grows bigger with every breath I take...
I want to stand on the highest mountain and SHOUT out what the Lord has done for me, but at the same time it blows my mind and makes me smaller than a grain of sand... and he SEES ME!!!! Even me!!! Little ol' helpless, tiny, insignificant me... and loves me with a love beyond my comprehension.
What a God...
