Day 1: Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing

Instead of giving something up for Lent, I have decided to add something in.  Music has been an important part of my faith life, and I thought that picking a different song to reflect on each day during the Lenten season would be a good Lenten commitment.  Never before have I been keen on blogging, and I could just write these reflections in a journal, but I think part of Lent is about sharing with others.  It is also a way to be kept accountable.  I would love anyone to read this blog if you have the time - but hey, maybe you gave up internet browsing for Lent?  What are the odds?

Today's song will be for the blog's namesake: an old hymn and one of my favorites, Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing.   

Jadon Lavik's version is one of my favorites.  Although much of my generation is moving out of the time of hymns and progressing into other types of worship music, I do still love hymns.  At some point, they meant a lot to someone - they were a sort of profession of faith by the person who wrote them.  I like it when they are woven into modern worship services, and every once in a while I like a service that is all hymns.

The first line of the hymn goes "Come thou fount of every blessing, tune mine heart to sing thy grace."  That is one thing that I think I forget to ask God, or allow Him to do often - tune my heart.  Sometimes it is so easy to have energy, to get excited and to be passionate about life.  Sometimes it just isn't.  I have to remember that it is OK to ask God to do the tuning; work within me and renew me.  In one of his letters, Paul describes how we are each instruments for God's purpose.  Instruments go out of tune.  Luckily, He is the master of melodies and harmonies, and is more than capable of putting us back in tune.
The end of the first verse proclaims "Praise His mount, I'm fixed upon it.  Mount of God's redeeming love."  That is what I'm aiming to be tuned into this season; to be fixed on.  God's redeeming love.  As is usually said of Christmas - we should keep the spirit and the truth of Christmas alive and in our hearts all year around.  I think the same can be said of Lent.  The convictions of Lent should be convictions that we have in our hearts the whole year through.
~SP