Sabbath Psalm (May 3-4)

 Sabbath Psalm (May 3-4)

(From Robert Robinson’s hymn, “Come Thou Fount”)

 

Come thou Fount of every blessing

Tune my heart to sing Your 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 God’s redeeming love

 

Here I raise my Ebenezer

Here by Your great help I’ve come

And I hope by Your good pleasure

Safely to arrive at home

 

Jesus sought me when a stranger

Wandering from the fold of God

Come to rescue me from danger

Interposed His precious blood

 

Oh, to Grace how great a debtor!

Daily I’m constrained to be

Let Your 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 Your courts above

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