LOOKING UNTO JESUS

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 3, 1856

LOOKING UNTO JESUS.

For such a High Priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens.”—Heb. vii, 26.

WHEN by guilt and fears distrest; When my troubled soul seeks rest; When within I look with pain, Seeking aid without in vain, Then I lift my tearful eye To the "sinless" ONE on high.

When I falsely suffer blame, Or a blight rests on my name; Thwarted when I would do good, When I am not understood; May I bear the smarting rod Like THEE, "harmless" Son of God.

When my treacherous heart has strayed, When to die I am afraid; Satan whispering in my ear, Bids me feel no help is near, Own me, Saviour, reconciled; Cleanse me, O Thou "undefiled."

When I view my whole life o'er, As I near th' eternal shore, And no good in aught I see, Jesus, then remember me: Open for me heaven's gate, Thou "from sinners separate."

Great High Priest, before the throne, Bearing guilt, but not thine own, Can I make thy wounds my plea! Dost thou intercede for me! "Higher than the heavens," Thou, Seest where the lowly bow.