This morning I saw a “picture” of myself. I was standing on a high wall, looking over an expanse that I can only describe as a “desert”. I was very still. I was clothed in a filmy gown of tans and creams. It had a golden sheen, much like the “desert” I was looking at. I had no shoes on. This is significant because anyone who knows me knows I do not like being bare-footed, and yet, in this “picture”, I was quite comfortable. There was a hint of a breeze. Two scriptures came to me: 1) Exodus 3:1-5 and 2) Joshua 6:13-15. In both scripture passages, Moses and Joshua were told to take off their sandals because the ground they were standing on was Holy.

Holy Spirit reminded me of something that was spoken over me long ago. It is probably the truest word I ever heard concerning myself. “People say that you are a watchman on the wall, but that is not true. You are a worshipper on the wall. You will see the enemy and you will proclaim it, but you would rather see Jesus.”

So what triggered all of this? I was looking at a play list of songs that a brother-in-Christ had last week. The song that caught my attention was, Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus. I remembered the chorus from my childhood. I played it and that is primarily what I listened to the rest of the week.

Today, I Googled the song and discovered many variations. I wanted to know who wrote it. Helen Hawarth Lemmel (1863-1961): She “wrote over 500 hymns and poems, but this song is by far the most well known of her songs” (please check http://www.christianmusic and hymns.com). She was inspired by Isabella Lilias Trotter (1853-1928) who wrote a Christian Tract, Focused: A Story and Song (Look up Isabella Lilias Trotter on Wikipedia). There was line in the tract that touched her most, “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.” The rest is history: TURN YOUR EYES UPON JESUS:

Chorus: 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. Verse1: 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. Verse2: Through death into life everlasting He passed, and we followed Him there. O’er us sin no more hath dominion, for more than conquerors we are. (Chorus). Verse3: 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. Chorus: 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. Lauren Daigle sings a version that ends with this Tag: Oh, turn your, oh, turn your, oh, turn your eyes upon Jesus (x6).

John 14:27; Colossians 3:1-4; 2 Corinthians 4:16-18.