Just imagine a fountain that bubbles up from a cool, unpolluted mountain spring – one that has inexhaustible resources. That is the spiritual water that Christ was telling the woman at the well about – the woman that had five husbands and was now living with another man. People are always thirsting for something and they do not know what it is – that is, not until Jesus comes into their life and introduces them to that spiritual water that never runs out. That spiritual water can still today, quench the thirst of every man, woman, and child (whosoever will may come).
I think one of the most neglected songs in our hymnals is “Come Thou Fount”. We do not make the first move in our relationship with Christ – He does! Just like the woman at the well, who came searching for water; and Christ was there waiting for her to come to the well.
Come Thou Fount
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 my Ebenezer
Here by Thy great help I’ve 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
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
In verse one, can you see that Christ is the source of every blessing we have and He comes to us, and because of this great love we do have a song in our heart that we can constantly bring to Him. Verse two starts off with the word Ebenezer – that is a Hebrew word meaning stone of help. It was set up by the Israelites to commemorate their victory with God’s help over the Philistines at Mizpah (1 Samuel 7:12). Then, in the third verse it talks about how much we owe to the grace of God – we are prone to walk a far distance, but by His grace we are sealed in the courts of Heaven!
This song was written in the 1700s. We are most fortunate to have had such men to walk before us that wrote such songs for us to continue, even today to sing as loudly, and as long as we can about the wonder that is the grace of our loving Savior! COME, THOU FOUNT OF EVERY BLESSING!!!!
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Voice of the Introverts 