David Crowder Band - Come Thou Fount

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....

I love the honesty of these few lines.......Because aren't we all so prone to wander?......in times of confusion, heart-ache, troubles.....don't we want to wander or sometimes run.....or in times of prosperity and calm.....wandering is almost effortless, we look up and realize with out any thought we've wandered from the One we love.

Let thy goodness like a fetter, bind my wandering heart to thee........

Bind thy wandering heart to thee...... I can picture my Heavenly Father taking one of those baby leashes (that I really don't like) and leashing His holy and perfect heart to my sinful heart !! Never letting me wander to far from Him. Letting me only wander far enough to know with out being fettered to Him I am a prisoner to sin and everything ugly in this world !

Take my heart, O and seal it, seal it for Thy courts above.......

Giving over my free will......letting the Lord have it all.......for His kingdom ! Seal it....mark me .....stamp me......tag me "Child of the King" Let me not forget who I belong to.....This has been a thought of mine lately.....we love to "belong".....to our family....to our work......to our clubs and sports.....to our friends.....to our churches...... I've had this feeling lately that the only place the Lord really desires us to find our belonging is in HIM ..and Him alone. Sometimes He brings us through a process of shaking us loose from all those other things and making us aware that we are still ok......it is painful this shaking process. When I feel shaken from familiar things I can feel that God is absent ....but it's in those times that He wants to make himself ever more present to me. He has cleared the stage of my heart, so to speak to be the opening act in my life once again. How easy I can crowd him off the stage....with "good" things ......"church" things...."holy" things. Only to realize that in all the meetings and running to and fro......I am not hearing Him clearly.....He is in the distant....a faint hum.....or whisper.....but more and more I can tune Him out and replace it with my own will. Take my heart........seal it .......seal it for Thy courts above..............Bind my wandering will to your perfect plan.