I’ve been trying to find hymns on which I haven’t blogged but as this Lent is progressing, they’re getting more and more obscure. This is why I was happy to find that “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing” was mentioned on the list for the lectionary readings from Sunday. (For the two people who are wondering, I’m using Oremus for this.)

Here are the words:

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.

O 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, O take and seal it,
seal it for thy courts above.

Here is a video with Chris Rice singing it.