Come, Thou Fount of every blessing...
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.
Robert Robinson, 1735-1790
I'm not in the mood to do a search on Robert Robinson, but off the top of my head, I heard, he got saved I want to say under George Whitfield, or someone like that. He made many songs and the fame got to him. He later then became and lived a life of a boozer.
He was on a train one day...perhaps drunk.. and a lady on the train had a hymnal and recognized him. She opened the hymnal to that song he wrote ""Come Thou Fount" and dropped it in his lap. He then rededicated his life to Christ.
Hebrews2:1 NIV
We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.
Drifting (back sliding) comes from neglect. Being out of the Word and not praying. We're suppose to be doers of the word. If you're just hearers your deceiving yourself. If you neglect your heart goes wrong. You go from neglect to denying the Word of God.
We need to be careful in what associations we make with the world.
Romans 8:8 NIV
Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God.
Also
Jn3:33 KJ
He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.
AI
