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Come Thou Fount (I Will Sing) - Chris Tomlin

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
Hither by Thy help I 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

How Your kindness yet pursues me
How Your mercy never fails me
Till the day that death shall loose me
I will sing, oh I will sing 

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 Lord, take and seal it
Seal it for Thy courts above

How Your kindness yet pursues me
How Your mercy never fails me
Till the day that death shall loose me
I will sing, oh I will sing
How Your kindness yet pursues me
How Your mercy never fails me
Till the day that death shall loose me
I will sing, oh I will sing
Till the day that death shall loose me
I will sing, oh I will sing

Prone to wander, Lord I feel it
Prone to leave the God I love
Here's my heart Lord, take and seal it
Seal it for Thy courts above
Here's my heart Lord, take and seal it
Seal it for Thy courts above

Luke 15:4 – “Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it?”

Ephesians 2:8-9 – “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.”

I have always loved the parable of the lost sheep. You know the story. One sheep is missing and the shepherd goes to seek it out so it will not remain lost. Oh how I loved to hear that that shepherd was Jesus and I was that silly, wandering sheep not even aware of the dangers around me or even knowing that I was in need of saving. This parable gave me a picture of God’s grace in my childhood years.

Years later as a mother, I was able to experience first-hand the absolute terror of losing track of my child in a crowd. Even more frightening was that we were on a family vacation in Mexico, in an extremely busy beach town and we didn’t speak the local language. Adalai was just three years old. I will never forget the heart pounding, breathless moments where we did not know where she was. Many family members joined us in searching for her and just as we were approaching the police on the busy streets, someone shouted out that they had located her. I was ecstatic and livid. Who knew those two emotions could occur simultaneously?! Adalai had wandered off to be with other members of our family without saying a word to Ray or myself. In our mixed emotions of relief and living out the potential dread, we lashed out in fear rather than jubilation and caused Adalai to feel quite badly. After the fear we put in her heart that day, she has never wandered from us since!

When I hear the words of Come Thou Fount, in which the author says he feels “prone to wander”, I think about the incident with Adalai in Mexico. I know that God is perfect and unable to sin and that in His sovereignty, He would know where I am all the time. But, I think that in my times of wandering, God must have sought after me in a similar manner that we searched for Adalai in that foreign city. He would not stop until He brought me back into the fold. He desired for me to be in His family.

Chris Tomlin has added a lovely chorus to this song that he has entitled, “I Will Sing”. The lyrical addition says this:

How Your kindness yet pursues me
How Your mercy never fails me
Till the day that death shall loose me
I will sing, oh I will sing

I am forever grateful that Christ pursued me and poured out His grace upon me, covering my sins in His mercy. I will speak of the great things God has done for me until my final breath. I pray you will find this updated hymn to be an encouragement to you this day. If you are also prone to wander, may you feel pulled back into the everlasting arms of our Father. He will pursue you. He will be gracious towards you and forgive you. He will seal you as His forever. His mercy will never fail you. Amen!