What an awesome weekend we had the weather was just perfect THANK YOU LORD! We so appreciate the glory of His being in everything around us.
As I was preparing for my day God put a song on my heart this morning, Turn your eyes upon Jesus. I love that song. I was renewing myself with the verses as the chorus is sang more time than the verses. I wanted to share those with you today.
- O soul, are you weary and troubled?
No light in the darkness you see?
There’s light for a look at the Savior,
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.
- Turn your eyes upon Jesus,
- Through death into life everlasting
He passed, and we follow Him there;
O’er 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 H. Lemmel the author and composer of this song shared that one day in reading a pamphlet entitled "Focused" she read these words: "So then, turn your eyes upon Him, look full into His face and you will find that the things of earth will acquire a strange new dimness."
She said the words impacted her so deeply that she could not dismiss them from her mind. She recalls this experience following the reading of that tract:
"Suddenly, as if commanded to stop and listen, I stood still, and singing in my soul and spirit was the chorus, with not one conscious moment of putting word to word to make rhyme, or note to note to make melody. The verses were written the same week, after the usual manner of composition, but none the less dictated by the Holy Spirit." (Cyberhymnal)
Today we see all around us how easy it is even for us who profess to be faithful followers to get caught up in the things of the earth. After awhile it will cause our heavenly vision and values to become less important and less lively. I want to say as well that this happens even when we are busy in our church activities. We get so involved in what we are doing that there are times we simply miss the real blessings and that personal time with Jesus Himself.
So today let me encourage you to put down your cell phones, turn off your televisions, close down your computers and spend some quality time with the Lord. TURN YOUR EYES UPON JESUS!
Be blessed always and know that YOU ARE LOVED!
Thanks for posting a bit about Helen Lemmel and her lovely gospel song. Interesting that she was blind for the latter part of her life--and she lived to within a few days of her 98th birthday! The look she describes in her song is, of course, a spiritual one. So she, and others (like Fanny Crosby), who lacked physical sight, were able to see the Lord with the eyes of faith.
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