21 - OUR HERO WHO WAS "PRONE TO WANDER" | Robert Robinson (Pastor/Hymnist) | 1700s

We often learn more from our heroes’ failures than their successes…

 

The old man, head bent forward in hopelessness, rode silently in the public carriage. He flexed his right fist, looking at the hand that God had given him to raise to the square, as God had called him to Christ’s Ministry years before when he was a rebellious young man.

 

Inside and seated across from him was a beautiful young woman, a stranger. For some reason she began to hum, then sing, the iconic words to a hymn that she later said had always inspired her. The hymn was titled: "Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing."

 

The young woman sang with pure intent. Then, sat still a moment, but wanting to pass the time, asked if the old man had liked her singing? He responded after a long, uncomfortable silence, his eyes filling with tears:

 

“Madam, I am the poor unhappy man who wrote that hymn many years ago, and I would give a thousand worlds if I could once more enjoy the feelings I had back then.”

 

The carriage rode on in silence as the sunset faded from view.

 

One of the great Christian ministers and the author of a longtime beloved hymn died alone and in obscurity, convinced that God had abandoned him. In truth—which he knew—he had abandoned God. How and why that happened is one of history’s truly untold stories of personal peace and inspiration.

 

I’m Rick Robison and this is the HEROES FOR FREEDOM Podcast.

 

 

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