"The Look"

We sang this song in chapel yesterday. It seemed to me that a profound awe fell over the student body and faculty/staff as we sang it. It's entitled "The Look." The original lyrics are by John Newton with new and alternate lyrics by Bob Kauflin.

Verse 1
I saw one hanging on a tree
In agony and blood
Who fixed His loving eyes on me
As near His cross I stood
And never till my dying breath
Will I forget that look
It seemed to charge me with His death
Though not a word He spoke.

VERSE 2
My conscience felt and owned the guilt
And plunged me in despair
I saw my sins His blood had spilt
And helped to nail Him there.
But with a second look he said,
“I freely all forgive
This blood is for your ransom paid
I died that you might live.”

CHORUS
Forever etched upon my mind
Is the look of Him who died
The Lamb I crucified
And now my life will sing the praise
Of pure atoning grace
That looked on me and
Gladly took my place.

VERSE 3
Thus while His death my sin displays
For all the world to view
Such is the mystery of grace
It seals my pardon too
With pleasing grief and mournful joy
My spirit now is filled
That I should such a life destroy
Yet live by Him I killed.

CHORUS
Forever etched upon my mind
Is the look of Him who died
The Lamb I crucified
And now my life will sing the praise
Of pure atoning grace
That looked on me and
Gladly took my place.

Original lyrics by John Newton. New and alternate lyrics by Bob Kauflin. Music by Bob Kauflin.
© 2001 PDI Praise (BMI). Sovereign Grace Music, a division of Sovereign Grace Ministries.