22 February 2009
Sharon’s Sunday Blog
Posted by Joy Bischoff under: General .
Opening the Door
By Sharon Anderson
Jesus Christ said, “Behold I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.”
The Lord respects our agency. He will not force His way into our lives, but instead, shows His love for us and then waits for us to invite Him in. How do we invite Jesus into our lives?
As we learn of Him, we grow in our faith that He the Son of God. We will desire to make changes in our lives so we can more fully feel His love. We will strive to keep His commandments and follow Him. We will want to make and keep covenants with Him.
Eventually, we will be willing to fully surrender our lives to Him.
Neal A Maxwell said, “The submission of one’s will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God’s altar. The many other things we ‘give’ are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.”
“Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing” is a hymn that praises the Lord as our Savior, acknowledges Him as the source of every blessing, and asks Him to come into our lives.
Ebenezer was the stone set up by Samuel as a token of gratitude for deliverance from the Philistines. ” Then Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer saying, Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.” Similarly, we raise our Ebenezer by praising Him for delivering us from the effects of sin and death as well as protecting us in times of personal peril.
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
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