This Sunday our foundation hymn is Come Thou Fount written by Robert Robinson. Robert Robinson was uncontrollable as a youth. His father died when he was young and his mother sent him away to barbering school. One night while out on the town he and his buddies came across an evangelistic meeting by George Whitefield. Robert could not get the sermon out of his mind and it chased him for three years. Finally on December 10, 1755 he gave his life to Christ. When he was 23 years old he wrote a hymn for a sermon.

Here are the words he wrote:

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.

Robert had experience what life was like without God and he never wanted to live that way again. He was so desperate that he asked for his own heart to be chained to God’s. He knew that without God’s grace and mercy he could wander away from God. He could feel the battle between his flesh and his spirit raging inside of him.

He offered God his heart. He wrote, “O take and seal it”. He wanted God to seal his heart so he could never again wander from the God he loves.

Do you feel the same way about God that Robert did? Are you willing to be chained to God, to have God Seal your heart? This week prepare yourself to have a conversation with God about your wandering heart. Is there anything that can make your heart wander?

We will also be singing, My Savior Lives, Shout to the Lord and Everyone Praise.

Ready yourselves for worship!

Morri