Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus

 

"Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith."

- Hebrews 12:2

 

 

O soul, are you weary and troubled?

No light in the darkness you see?

There's light for a look at the Saviour,

And life more abundant and free!

 

Turn your eyes upon Jesus,

Look full in His wonderful face,

And the things of earth will grow strangely dim,

In the light of His glory and grace.

 

Through death into life everlasting

He passed, and we follow Him there:

Over us sin no more hath dominion --

For more than conquerors we are!

 

His Word shall not fail you -- He promised;

Believe Him, and all will be well:

Then go to a world that is dying,

His perfect salvation to tell!

- Helen Lemmel

 

The words for this precious hymn we sang in church this morning were inspired by a pamphlet by Lilias Trotter entitled "Focused." The following paragraph especially stood out to the hymnwriter Helen Lemmel and became the main theme for her hymn:

 

"Turn full your soul's vision to Jesus and look and look at Him, and a strange dimness will come over all that is apart from Him, and the Divine 'attrait' by which God's saints are made, even in this 20th century, will lay hold of you. For 'He is worthy' to have all there is to be had in the heart that He has died to win."

- Lilias Trotter

 

"While we look not at the things which are seen,

but at the things which are not seen:

for the things which are seen are temporal;

but the things which are not seen are eternal."

- II Corinthians 4:18