Come Thou Fount 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 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.
Robert Robertson referred to God in this hymn
as “the fount of blessing”. He also
mentioned never ceasing streams of God’s mercy that caused him to sing songs of
praise. Two of the greatest things that
being a recipient of God’s love made him recognize was first, that he needed God
to teach him this “melodious sonnet”, and second that he needed God to “tune
his heart “ to praise with music.
We as Christian musicians need God
to help us make the same two preparations before we music unto Him. We need God to teach us how and what music we
should use to praise Him. If we would
let the Holy Spirit guide us in our musical choices they would be much more
efficacious and we would not have problems with songs that do not represent the
moral nature of God.
My earliest memories of singing in church
include my mother pray for me and having me ask God specifically to help me
make the right choice of a song to use in the worship or evangelistic
service. Because of her wise guidance I
learned as a little child to invite the Holy Spirit’s guidance in my musical
choices. My Godly mother taught me to
let God “tune my heart to sing god’s praise”.
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