Today’s hymn focus:  “Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus”

 Hebrews 12:1-2 (ESV)           

“Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,  looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

Helen Howarth Lemmel was born in England to a Wesleyan minister who migrated to America when she was a child. She loved music and her parents provided her with the best vocal teachers they could find. She eventually went to Germany to study vocal music. It was there that she married a wealthy European, but he left her when she became blind. She faced many heartaches during her midlife.

But at the age of 55, she heard a statement that moved her: “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 later said, “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 nonetheless dictated by the Holy Spirit.”

“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.”

We need to wake up and keep our focus on Jesus. His look of love, hope, peace and grace will help us face whatever situation is in front of us. Look to Him today!

YOUTUBE:

Turn You Eyes Upon Jesus