Prone To Wander...

“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”

This song was played at my church yesterday in the contemporary version. I was reminded of when I would walk through the doors as a young girl and hear this old hymn. I sang this song out of the book many Sundays but they were just words upon my lips. This song, Come Thou Fount, Come Thou King, is a prophetic statement for all of us.

The word prone means ‘inclined to do or be affected by something, in downward direction, sloping, leaning or moving downward.’ When living our lives with a complacent attitude we can be assured that we are living life on the slope leaning downward opposed to reaching for the upward. Notice in the song that it is our nature to wander, to linger on the slope which may lead to exiting our fellowship with God. He doesn’t go anywhere but we do based on the absence of focus on God in our lives.

The word fount means ‘One that initiates or dispenses, the source’. Our hearts can only be restored by calling out for our Fount, our King, the source of our lives. Only through our surrender to Christ can he take possession of our hearts, protect it from the slopes and seal it for His purpose.

If we are not living our lives with intentional fellowship with Christ we will be affected by this world which will always pull us in the downward direction. Only through God’s source are we able to focus on His heavenly courts and live a life apart from the slopes.

May we sing this hymn today as ‘Prone to love Him…prone to serve Him… prone to love the God within’