Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus

A mother came into the room of her little girl who had been sick and noticed that she was sitting up in bed crying. She said, "What's wrong, honey?"

On the wall across from the foot of the little girl's bed was a mirror. On the wall above the headboard of her bed was a picture of Jesus.

The little girl said, "Mommy, when I see myself I can't see Jesus." (She had been used to seeing the picture of Jesus reflected in the mirror on the opposite wall as she was lying in bed. However, when she sat up, the reflection changed, obliterating the picture of Jesus and replacing it with her own reflection. This was very upsetting to her.)

It's so true--when we see ourselves we can't see Jesus, and this should upset us as well.

The chorus advises us to: "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."

"Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher [the pioneer and perfecter] of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God" (Hebrews 12:1-2).

Let's turn away from sin, worries of all kinds, the situations we see around us, the troubles that beset us, and let us turn our eyes upon Jesus who loves us with an everlasting love.