Bible
The word insight means the ability to see beyond the façade, the ability to
see beyond what others want to see, and see the truth. Insight is something we all need but so very
few have.
Throughout the ‘60s and ‘70s,
Dottie Rambo, her husband Buck, and their daughter Reba, made up The Singing
Rambos, one of the most successful southern gospel trios of all time. As the group’s main songwriter, Dottie was
prolific. Today hardly any modern hymnal
fails to include one or more of her 2,500 songs. Dottie’s best-known song, by far, is the
inspirational “He Looked Beyond My Fault and Saw My Need.”
In 1970, Dottie began writing a
song about the grace of God, but was unable to finish it. When her older brother was hospitalized with
cancer and told that he had only weeks to live, Dottie sat by his bedside and
ministered to him. Within a few days,
she persuaded him to marry the woman who had borne him five children. Dottie read the Bible to him and prayed with
him. One day, after singing at a
concert, she returned to ask: “Have you given your life to Jesus since I’ve
been gone?”
Eddie, 37, stared at her with sad
eyes. “After the wicked life I’ve lived,
the Lord won’t raise a person like me,” he muttered. He reminded her of his time in jail and his
addiction to drugs and alcohol.
“The Lord left the 99 to bring a
lost sheep like you back to the fold,” Dottie told him. She continued to pray for his salvation. Then she went home and finished “He Looked
Beyond My Fault.” For years Jimmie
Davis, the southern gospel singer and former
“Amazing grace shall always be my
song of praise,
For it was grace that brought my
liberty;
I do not know just why He came to
love me so,
He looked beyond my fault and saw my need.”
Chorus
“I shall forever lift mine eyes to
To view the cross where Jesus died for me,
How marvelous the grace that caught my falling soul;
He looked beyond my fault and saw my need.”
Dear God, help me to look beyond the faults of others and
see their needs.
✞ Look at others with the eyes of your heart and see their needs, not their faults.
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