Lyrics
Verse 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
Verse 2
Teach me some melodious sonnet
Sung by flaming tongues above
Praise the mount, I'm fixed upon it
Mount of Thy redeeming love
Verse 3
Here I raise my Ebenezer
Here by Thy great help I've come
And I hope by Thy good pleasure
Safely to arrive at home
Verse 4
Jesus sought me when a stranger
Wandering from the fold of God
Here to rescue me from danger
Interposed His precious blood
(Precious blood)
Verse 5
Oh, that day when freed from sinning
I shall see Thy lovely face
Clothe it then in blood washed linen
How I'll sing Thy sovereign grace
Verse 6
Come my Lord, no longer tarry
Take my ransom soul away
Send Thine angels now to carry
Me to realms of endless days
Verse 7
Oh, to grace how great a debtor
Daily I'm constraint to be
Let Thy goodness like a fetter
Bind my wandering heart to Thee
Verse 8
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
Outro
Here's my heart
Oh, take and seal it
Seal it for Thy courts above
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Meaning & Inspiration
“Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing,” sung here by Chris Rice, is a traditional hymn of grace and gratitude. It opens by asking God to tune the heart to sing His grace and describes streams of mercy that never cease. The “Ebenezer” verse is a marker of help received, with the line “here by Thy great help I’ve come.”
The hymn then speaks of Jesus seeking a wandering stranger and rescuing him by His precious blood. The later verses look toward seeing His face, being clothed in blood-washed linen and being carried to endless days. It ends with the well-known prayer that goodness would bind a wandering heart, because the singer is “prone to wander.”
The themes are close to 1 Samuel 7:12, Luke 15:4-7 and Revelation 7:14, on a stone of remembrance, a lost sheep found and robes washed in the Lamb’s blood.
Related Scripture
- 1 Samuel 7:12 Samuel sets up an Ebenezer: thus far the Lord has helped us
- Luke 15:4-7 The shepherd seeks the wandering sheep
- Revelation 7:14 Robes washed in the blood of the Lamb