Sister Sheri Peterson
Ward Music Director
Taking its opening line from Psalm 27:1, this energetic song communicates joy and reassurance. As we walk by faith, we depend on a divine, never-failing light to banish shadows and illuminate our path.
In our mortal lives, our sight is imperfect, as Paul phrased it in his letter to the Corinthians: "For now we see through a glass, darkly." (1 Corinthians 13:12) our understanding is limited, and we are at the mercy of influences that we perceive only vaguely and of events that lie in wait to surprise us. We need something stronger than our mortal vision. The answer is that our Savior's vision is perfect: "there is in his sight no darkness at all." We can see him and come to know him, not through our human senses, but through "faith, stronger than sight," that "looks up through the skies."
This hymn was published in a book of evangelical gospel songs in 1885, and by 1892 it had found its way into a Latter-day Saint Sunday School song collection. (Davidson, Karen Lynn; Our Latter-Day Hymns, p.119)
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