There Is A Fountain

I love hymns. I especially love hymns with great theological content. Memorizing hymns (usually through repeated singing/listening) is a great way to learn doctrine and guide devotional times. I was listening to "There Is a Fountain Filled With Blood" from Red Mountain Music (Depth of Mercy album) earlier today and I was reminded of the forgiveness that flows to us through Christ's death on the cross. The words are a powerful reminder of the redemption offered free to all who will turn and believe.

There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel's veins;
And sinners, plunged beneath that flood, Lose all their guilty stains:
Lose all their guilty stains, Lose all their guilty stains;
And sinners, plunged beneath that flood, Lose all their guilty stains.

The dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day;
And there my I, though vile as he, wash all my sins away:
Wash all may sins away, wash all my sins away,
And there may I, though vile as he, wash all my sins away.

Dear dying Lamb, thy precious blood shall never lose its pow'r,
Till all the ransomed church of God be saved, to sin no more:
Be saved, to sin no more, be saved, to sin no more,
Till all the ransomed church of God be saved, to sin no more.

E'er since by faith I saw the stream they flowing wounds supply,
Redeeming love has been my theme, and shall be till I die:
And shall be till I die, and shall be till I die,
Redeeming love has been my theme, and shall be till I die.
---William Cowper (1771)

I am grateful to God that my sins have been washed away in that precious fountain. I pray that he will enable me to forever sing of his redeeming love. I hope you, too, have been washed in that fountain, and that you will forever sing of his redeeming love.