Heart to the Son

By Belinda

 3 And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. (Daniel 9:3, American Standard Version)

With golden sunshine as a backdrop, shoulders back, chest out and up, she balances on one foot while grasping the other across her thigh. With hard won grace she is demonstrating an exercise position.
"Heart to the sun..."

Brenda says it is the phrase her instructor uses as a prompt to good posture. She has been working hard of late to get in shape and has admirable focus and discipline.

Change "sun" to "Son" and it reminds me to keep myself in constant awareness of my need for God's grace.

For I am prone to slouching spiritual shoulders; slumping; drifting and to wobbly legs. I think that to be human is to be prone to wandering.

Heart to the Son.

I need a reminder often to turn Son-ward. To orient myself towards home.

Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Robert Robinson
The following version was adapted by E. Margaret Clarkson in 1973. [7]:

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 His Name I'm fixed upon it
Name of God's redeeming love.

2. Hither to thy love has blessed me
Thou has brought me to this place
And I know thy hand will bring me
Safely home by thy good grace
Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wandering from the fold of God;
He, to rescue me from danger,
Bought me with 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.

 12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, saluteth you, always striving for you in his prayers, that ye may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God. (Colossians 4:12, American Standard Version)

Hebrews 12:12-13 (New Living Translation)

12 So take a new grip with your tired hands and strengthen your weak knees. 13 Mark out a straight path for your feet so that those who are weak and lame will not fall but become strong.

Comments

kingfisher said…
That's one of my favorite hymns. (There are many favorite hymns!)

"Prone to wander..."

Yes, how we DO wander, how we do doubt, how we do struggle. What a great God we have, who loves us, forgives us, and carries us, always!
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