I don’t really want to tell you about the SUN IN THE EARTHLY SKY.
Sunset in Kaitaia
We cannot find anybody who does not know about the sun in the sky.
But let me just tell you very quickly, that we are today without sunshine. It is dreary, wet and cold, and the visitor we expected today is not coming, but waiting for a day with sunshine.
I want to tell you about the SUN IN MY SOUL.
Why?
Because not very many people know about the sun we can have in our soul.
“Sun of my soul, Thou Saviour dear, it is not night if Thou be near, …” is a hymn by John Keble.
Before becoming an Anglican minister, he was a professor of poetry at Oxford university.
In Psalm 84:11 it says, “For the LORD is a sun and a shield, …”
