7th Element | My Faith Looks Up To Thee

Ray Palmer wrote the words of this song in 1830. According to his own account, he wrote it as a private expression of his feelings about Christ. This hymn is addressed to God as a prayer. He had experienced a difficult year of illness and loneliness and was inspired to write one night after meditating on a poem depicting a sinner kneeling before the cross of Christ. He later stated, "The words for these stanzas were born out of my own soul with very little effort. I recall that I wrote the verses with tender emotion. . . . When writing the last line, "O bear me safe above, a ransomed soul!" the thought that the whole work of redemption and salvation was involved in those words. . . brought me to a degree of emotion that brought abundant tears." We hope you enjoy 7th Element's rendition of this sacred hymn arranged by Jemuel Anderson.