Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus (We Turn)

Paul Baloche's setting of this familiar hymn begins with a direct address to the soul, asking whether it is weary and troubled, then answers with the assurance that no darkness is so deep that the eyes cannot see. The chorus supplies the song's central image: looking full into the face of Jesus, so that earthly things grow strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace. The second verse shifts the address from the soul to God, confessing that He is present even in darkness and that His Word and light lead the singer onward, with the heart hearing the Father call all people to His Son. The closing section becomes a simple, repeated act of turning — eyes lifted to behold beauty and to declare God holy. The song moves from weariness to light, from questioning to beholding, and it treats the turning of the gaze as something done again and again rather than once. Its invitation is not to try harder but to look, and the promise attached is that the weight of the world loses its grip when the face of Christ fills the view.