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Soul Crescendo

by Carolyn Majoran

Soul Crescendo was birthed out of my love for God as well as music that lifts up His name. While my musical taste may be somewhat eclectic, I pray you will find the blogs shared here to be an encouragement to you. Let the simple truths of God’s greatness and the music that brings Him glory be a balm to your soul. To Him be the glory always.

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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.”

    Come Thou Fount (I Will Sing) by Chris Tomlin

    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!