Take time to behold Him

Take time to behold Him,
Be calm in thy soul,
Each thought and each temper
Beneath His control.
Amen!!!
Such a sweet hymn.

"Take time behold Him, the world rushes on; spend much time in secret with Jesus alone. By looking to Jesus, like Him thou shalt be; your friends, in your conduct, His likeness shall see."

Recently I've really been touched by the matter of spending time with the Lord. From our local winter retreat, I saw that I must redeem the time, and to redeem my time is to spend time loving Him. Nothing else compares to Him - there is no one else like our dear Lord Jesus. So shouldn't I be spending the most time loving Him, enjoying and conversing with the Lord? I love Him, I've consecrated my college life to Him, so why aren't I giving Him my full attention, my all? It is because I fail, constantly. And often times after I rebelled, I felt so unworthy and disheartened that I run away from Him. But Hallelujah, we can turn back to Him by choosing our spirit at ANY time! Whenever we fail, it's just another opportunity for me to turn back to Him. We need to PAY THE PRICE to take a stand to our soul life, but in the whole New testament we are never told to REPAY anything. The Lord just wants me to love Him, that I'd willingly pay the price to give my time and life to Him. I love You Lord!

Dear Lord, lead us to fountains of love...

Oh Lord Jesus I love You! Keep me always in Your presence, in joy or in sorrow.

Thank You Lord, whenever we fail we can simply turn back to You. Cause us to spend time with You every single day, whatever betide!

Yes Lord, do cause us to take time to behold You. Do grant us a hidden life of beholding You!

Lord, cause us to take time to behold You. Grant us a hidden life of beholding You!

William Longstaff was a businessman, and the son of a wealthy English ship owner. He was his church's treasurer.

In June, 1873, D.L. Moody and Ira Sankey came to England to hold evangelistic meetings. They arrived broke, and were hoping their sponsors would have things ready for them, but instead the fellow they counted on had died, and nothing had been done to prepare for the evangelistic team’s arrival. Moody and Sankey scrounged around desperately to have a meeting and had a very meager group of about 50 that showed up. Soon afterwards, William Longstaff used his financial resources and influence to support them, and the small gatherings increased to 20,000 people in London, and was able to go on to Scotland.

He was also good friends with William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army. - extracted from hymnary and gbod

Longstaff heard a sermon on the text, "Be ye holy for I am holy" and wrote down what holiness meant to him. A businessman at heart, Longstaff wrote no flowery or pious-sounding verses but these down-to-earth thoughts.

The hymn appeared in a Christian newspaper in 1882 and was promptly forgotten. But years later gospel composer George Stebbins, who was leading music in India in connection with evangelistic services there, remembered the poem when he was asked if there was a good hymn on living a holy life. Retrieving the newspaper clipping he had saved, he set the poem to music - Great Songs of Faith by Brown & Norton

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In the original, the 1st line of each stanza says,
Take time to be holy,
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the original stanza 1, lines 5-6 say:
Make friends of God's children,
help those who are weak,
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In the original stanza 4, line 3 says "motive" instead of "temper"

The last 2 lines originally say:

thou soon shalt be fitted

for service above.

Thank You, Lord, for this refreshing word. Lord, make this our daily habit, even our living. May we be such persons who would always take time to behold You, persons who would spend time fellowshipping with You. I love You, Lord!

There is another version that said, take time to be holy. So which is the right one actually.