Thursday, June 27th
Day 61
Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shem,
and called the name of it Ebenezer,
saying,
Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.
I Samuel 7:12
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 mine Ebenezer;
Hither by Thy help I’m 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.
O 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, O take and seal it,
Seal it for Thy courts above.
Lord, You planted these hymns of the faith deep in my soul years ago and they have born fruit.
They are bearing fruit this day.
You bring to my mind just what I need to hear – just when I need to hear it – and I praise You!
No distant Lord have I,
Loving afar to be;
Made flesh for me, He cannot rest
Until He rests in me.
Brother in joy or pain,
Bone of my bone was He;
Now – intimacy closer still –
He dwells Himself in me.
I need not journey far,
This dearest Friend to see;
Companionship is always mine,
He makes His home with me.
-Maltbie D. Babcock
-Springs in The Valley
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