In This World

Behind The Song

Inspired by those words in Psalm 121, “I lift up my eyes to the hills – where is my help gonna come from…?” this is a song that was born out of that feeling of helplessness and hopelessness most of us experience at times along the way…some of us more than others. Times when we feel like we really have no clue how to live, have no idea how to do anything about all that’s messed up and broken in the world and in our personal lives, and sometimes we find it hard to believe that God is real and that God cares. It seemed like how the people of Israel must have felt when they wrote this Psalm – the journey was long and rough and the mountains way too high. But the answer they got was to raise their eyes, look up, look around, because when we really look we can actually see God’s grace and love all around us in big and small, almost hidden ways… and that’s why Jesus was came into this world and dwelt among us…so we could see the story isn’t over yet.

Albums & Liturgies with this song

The Lyrics

Verse 1 
I don’t know how to live 
I don’t know how to make things right 
I don’t know where to go 
All I wanna do is run away and hide 

Chorus
I lift my eyes up to the hills 
I lift my eyes to know what’s true 
I lift my eyes and then I see 
You…In this world 
I see You…In this world 
I see You…In this world 

Verse 2 
I can hear You in the pain 
I can see you in hearts that bleed 
I can feel you in the hands 
That are reaching out for me 

Chorus

Bridge 
Show us the way,
Show us the way to live
Show us the way,
Show us the way to love

We want to follow You 
In this world

Lyrics: Lenora Rand 
Music: Hannah Rand

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