R. Halverson (487/413) -- Hymns and Spiritual Songs

R. Halverson ARE you in the arena Are you giving your all? Are your eyes fixed on Jesus? Have you answered His call? Are you running to win? Have you laid aside weights? And your besetting sin? I have fought a good fight. I’ve finished my race. I have hung on to faith and I shall see His face. I look for His coming, Though all turn away. My eyes are toward Jesus, toward Jesus today. 2 The world e’er is calling The sirens do cry, Entanglements threaten To obscure the eye. But a highway’s been carved Through this wilderness wild. It’s a safe road of travel For God’s trusting child. 3 Yes, God wants a soldier May no soft way enchain To prevent you from rising When He calleth your name. To go forth in His service Though with suffering and pain, Nothing’s too dear for Jesus Who for me once was slain. 4 Now singing’s for victors So sing out we must For our Jesus has triumphed In Him do we trust. He’s marked out our course, O’er our lives His cross reigns, To win all we must lose all, Faith, the victory obtains.