HCC Weekly - November 17th, 2025
- rachael6517
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November Devotional 2025
Good Morning HCC Family! Today is Day 321 of your bible reading plan. You’ve got 44 days left and then you’ll have read through the entire Bible! Congratulations! What an awesome thing to accomplish. My prayer and hope is that you are learning more about the character of God and you are also unlearning things that weren’t true to begin with. That can be difficult, so give yourself grace. Keep reading, be steadfast, pursue the Lord!
Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus
This original hymn by Helen H. Lemmel came after she read a missionary pamphlet from Algeria. It had a powerful line that inspired Lemmel to write this hymn. The line in the pamphlet read:
“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.”
Scripture says in Psalm 34:4-5 “I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears. Those who look to him are radiant; their faces are never covered with shame. This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles. The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.”
So, what is scripture and this song telling us? That we won't care about our troubles? That we will be able to walk around naive and gullible to life’s troubling consequences and hardships?
Absolutely not! We know that we will have troubles in this life and in this world. But, as God’s children we have the blessed assurance that we have the peace and hope for God’s provision for our future. The Holy Spirit is our comforter. Christ is our salvation. God is our Father, who has given us the keys to His Kingdom! We can see this world through the perspective of a
temporary lens...this is not our “forever home”. The things of this earth have grown strangely dim, in the light of his glory and grace.
King David prayed the prayer in Psalm 34. We know from the accounts of his life that he was a man of God. That he was a sinner, but that he was after God’s heart. There is more grace in God than sin in me. I can trust that no matter how far I go, God is right there to rescue me and be my redeemer.
Whatever your desperate situation may be, pray Psalm 34 over your life.
Earnestly seek him in prayer, fellowship, worship, and lifestyle. He will answer you!
Worship in song with me!
