Our Eyes Are on You
I wrote this song in a time when we were totally overwhelmed in our ministry. We didn’t have a clue what to do with half of the problem in folks’ lives. And so I wrote this song in great anguish. But it reminded me when enemies surrounded Judah who wanted to kill them in the book of 2nd Chronicles in the days of Jehoshaphat the King. And he prayed and said, “We don’t know what to do, but our eyes are on you.”
At the time one of the couples in our church was on the edge of divorce, one of our long time folks became homeless, one of the new believers fell away into sinful living, a number of folks were searching in vain for housing, folks were doing drugs. Others were lost in mental illness and would not listen to reason, others were struggling with domestic violence, some had been in car crashes or sicknesses unhealed, and still others were departing from our ministry on bad terms. And there was nothing we could do to change any of it.
We felt so helpless. Have you ever felt like that? We actually have many times, though that was one of our worst seasons. Maybe this song will encourage you in a strangle way, maybe in solidarity with us:
“So many have left us alone, but we keep pressing on. Those that stay are trying to learn, but don’t know how to love. While sickness and crashes abound, we’re hanging on tight, to whatever of your voice makes a sound, we can’t see in the night. There is pain and sadness and fear, but we trust in you. They’re sitting in jail in tears, we don’t know what to do. As time keeps on trucking along, tick, tick tock, tick tick tock on the clock. We’ll keep on singing this song, trying to fit the key in the lock. We don’t know what to do, but our eyes are on you…”
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