“O soul are you weary and troubled. No light in the darkness you see. There’s a light for a look at the Savior and life more abundant and free.”(Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus).
There’s a light for a look at the Savior when our souls are weary and troubled.Can you see Jesus praying for you? He’s praying for you and He’s praying for me, even today.
(John 17:1) JESUS spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You,”
Basically what He says, “Father, glorify Me that I might glorify You. Even if it means that my hands and my feet are nailed to the cross. I surrender, be glorified.” I can’t help but think of His words, “Not My will, but Yours be done.”
Sometimes, I just don’t know what those words mean.
The hymns speaks understandingly well: “O soul are you weary and troubled, no light in the darkness to see? There’s a light…
And at times, we ask “where’s the light?”
BUT ‘there’s a light for a look at the Savior,Jesus prayed for us, He’s covered us in His prayer:’,(John 17:6)”I have manifested Your Name to the men whom You have given Me out of the world.” Jesus didn’t just ‘talk’ about the Father, He was God’s feet to His disciples -he loved, he wept, He healed, He forgave sin, He resurrected the dead…He was compassionate, and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in mercy, He was God in the flesh.
Let the prayer that Jesus prayed for you and for me enlighten your darkness: (John 17:11)
“Holy Father, keep through thine own Name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one, as We are.” And Jesus prayed for “them also which shall believe on Me through their word,”(John 17:20,21).
“That they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.”
Jesus prays for us today. He prayed that we be ‘kept’ through the power of His name. He prayed for us then, and it’s recorded so we can see. It’s a light to know He sees.
“There’s a light for a look at the Savior…So Turn Your eyes upon Jesus…and the things of earth will grow strangely dim…”So the lights go up at Christmas time. How we need to see those lights. And in the midst of it all and all the hoho’s and the stress of the holidays, there’s a light…that reminds me that my Jesus, He prays for us.
He takes our broken, imperfect lives and give us one heart and mind for Him. Strangely dim all the ‘earthly stuff’ becomes, as we struggle to focus on Him.
So as the lights go up at Christmas time. How we need to look at those lights. And in the midst of it all and all the hoho’s and the stress of the holidays, may the lights help us focus on the truth that He prays for us.
Look at the lights and keep seeking, keep knocking, keep asking. Remember what’s truth, that our Immanuel hears. He is here. “You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free.” (John 8:32). Today, this truth is seen in the light, that Jesus is praying for you and me. His love never fails.
C.H. Spurgeon encourages: “My dear believer, you must totally trust the Lord in everything concerning everything. “Trust in Him at all times” (Ps. 62:8). Trust in the shadow of His wings (Ps. 91:4). Trust in the light of His countenance (Rev. 1:16).” (C.H. Spurgeon, Beside Still waters).
“The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, and give yo peace.” (Numbers 6:26).
“O Come let us adore Him, O come let us adore Him, O come let us adore Him, Christ the LORD!”
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