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RE: What does this line mean? - 7/1/2008 12:20:31 PM
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Consecrated2God
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It means, "Everything else in the world is nothing to me. The only thing that is important to me is that You exist."
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RE: What does this line mean? - 7/1/2008 12:24:00 PM
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karlie
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That is one of my all time favorite hymns.
My take on it is that "be thou my vision" means that we seek after only him. He and he alone is what we are striving towards and looking towards.
"Naught be all else to me save that Thou art" I always took to mean that may everything else in our life be as nothing compared to what He is to us.
I could be wrong, but that's how I have always interpreted those lines.
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RE: What does this line mean? - 7/1/2008 12:35:17 PM
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karlie
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So... where do we take this thread now? LOL!
That I couldn't say! But, if you want to hear a wonderful version of that song, listen to 4Him's recording. The harmonies give me chills. It's very powerful.
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RE: What does this line mean? - 7/1/2008 12:54:30 PM
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ORIGINAL: ta_mosquito
Yeah, I like the hymn, too, except for the line I couldn't interpret. 
Thanks, ladies!
So... where do we take this thread now? LOL!
I am a man, but do not hold that against me. 
I think you can take "Be Thou My Vision" literally also. We need to use Christ's eyes to see...not the visible, but the spiritual. How many are seeing not through the eyes of Christ, but through the eyes of dead men?
Are not many of the disputes that separate those in the Body of Christ, brought about because we are looking through the eyes of Augustine, or Luther, or Calvin, or Arminius, or Westley? These men are all dead...but Christ is alive!
When we look through the eyes of dead men, it clouds everything we see. But when we look through the eyes of our living Lord and Savior, then we see spiritual truth more clearly.
Just a thought...
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RE: What does this line mean? - 7/1/2008 1:02:05 PM
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karlie
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the desire to understand and enter into the language of the writer. Instead of the attitude that says, I want to sing it in my words.
I'm a singer, so lyrics are huge to me. I never sing anything that I don't usually end up dissecting if the meaning isn't clear. Singing, especially worship, is an emotional experience, so knowing what you are singing enhances what it does for you, I think.
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RE: What does this line mean? - 7/1/2008 4:34:23 PM
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Hmmm. I DO want to sing it in my words, LOL! I would rather sing songs that I understand upon first reading than ones I have to research.
But you're the better for seeking out the meaning, Tricia. So I'll keep believing the best of you. . . OK? 
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RE: What does this line mean? - 7/1/2008 9:35:59 PM
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There is a line in "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" that says "here I raise my Ebenezer"; too many think that this means the character in the Christmas Carol. But it referes to our victory flag. It is in Him that victory is won.
Prone to wander, Lord I feel it
Prone to leave the One I love
Here's my heart Lord
Take and seal it
Seal it for thy courts above.
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RE: What does this line mean? - 7/1/2008 10:25:02 PM
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BerianAardvark
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ORIGINAL: colliefan
There is a line in "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" that says "here I raise my Ebenezer"; too many think that this means the character in the Christmas Carol. But it referes to our victory flag. It is in Him that victory is won.
Prone to wander, Lord I feel it
Prone to leave the One I love
Here's my heart Lord
Take and seal it
Seal it for thy courts above.
אבן העזר 'eben hâ‛êzer BDB Definition: Ebenezer = “stone of help”
1) memorial stone erected by Samuel to mark where God helped Israel to defeat the Philistines - north of Jerusalem
Then Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and named it Ebenezer, saying, "Thus far the LORD has helped us."
(1 Samuel 7:12)
You are probably thinking of יהוה נסּי yehôvâh nissîy BDB Definition: Jehovah-nissi = “Jehovah is my banner”
1) the name given by Moses to the altar which he built in commemoration of the discomfiture of the Amalekites
And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The Lord is my Banner; (Exodus 17:15)
(BDB= Brown Driver Briggs a Biblical Hebrew English dictionary)
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RE: What does this line mean? - 7/2/2008 2:33:04 AM
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Maybe there is a NIV version?
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RE: What does this line mean? - 7/2/2008 7:20:58 AM
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the 2nd verse in "come thou fount"
Sorrowing I shall be in spirit,
Till released from flesh and sin,
Yet from what I do inherit,
Here Thy praises I’ll begin;
Here I raise my Ebenezer;
Here by Thy great help I’ve come;
And I hope, by Thy good pleasure,
Safely to arrive at home.
sang it for years, never had a clue what it meant.
what does raising one's ebenezer' mean?
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RE: What does this line mean? - 7/2/2008 8:36:21 AM
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BerianAardvark
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what does raising one's ebenezer' mean?
אבן העזר 'eben hâ‛êzer Ebenezer = “stone of help” after the memorial stone erected by Samuel to mark where God helped Israel to defeat the Philistines - north of Jerusalem
Then Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and he called the name of it Ebenezer [stone of help], saying, Heretofore the Lord has helped us. (1 Samuel 7:12)
(or look to post 15 )
Tim
< Message edited by BerianAardvark -- 7/2/2008 8:42:25 AM >
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