Look and Live

Look to Jesus weary one, Look and live, look and live

Author: P. P. Bliss
Tune: [Look to Jesus, weary one] (Bliss)
Published in 9 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 Look to Jesus, weary one,
Look and live! look and live!
Look at what the Lord has done,
Look and live!
See Him lifted up on the tree,
Look and live! look and live!
Hear Him say, “Look unto Me,”
Look and live!

Refrain:
Look! the Lord is lifted high;
Look at Him, He’s ever nigh,
Look and live! why will ye die?
Look and live!

2 Though unworthy, vile, unclean,
Look and live! look and live!
Look away from self and sin,
Look and live!
Long by Satan’s pow’r enslaved,
Look and live! look and live!
Look to Me, ye shall be saved,
Look and live! [Refrain]

3 Tho’ you’ve wandered far away,
Look and live! look and live!
Harden not your heart today,
Look and live!
‘Tis thy Father calls thee home,
Look and live! look and live!
Whosoever will may come.
Look and live! [Refrain]


Source: Choice Hymns of the Faith #115

Author: P. P. Bliss

Philip P. Bliss (b. Clearfield County, PA, 1838; d. Ashtabula, OH, 1876) left home as a young boy to make a living by working on farms and in lumber camps, all while trying to continue his schooling. He was converted at a revival meeting at age twelve. Bliss became an itinerant music teacher, making house calls on horseback during the winter, and during the summer attending the Normal Academy of Music in Genesco, New York. His first song was published in 1864, and in 1868 Dwight L. Moody advised him to become a singing evangelist. For the last two years of his life Bliss traveled with Major D. W. Whittle and led the music at revival meetings in the Midwest and Southern United States. Bliss and Ira D. Sankey published a popular series of hym… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Look to Jesus weary one, Look and live, look and live
Title: Look and Live
Author: P. P. Bliss
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Look! the Lord is lifted high
Copyright: Public Domain

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