Reading about the mission of the Waipu Cove Surf Life Saving Club, “to help spread the word about water safety, and try to help prevent people drowning and getting into trouble at the beach or any other ‘water space,'” in our local paper, The Northland Age, Thursday, January 17, 2019, brought to my mind the mission of the followers of the Lord Jesus Christ. (Matthew 4:19)

The mission of the followers of the Lord Jesus Christ is to help spread the word about God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, about the Bible, about Salvation, etc.

Some Lessons about Salvation are the new birth, faith, repentance, forgiveness, etc.

And what happens when we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ? The moment a sinner accepts the Lord Jesus Christ many things are happening, things in relation to God the Father, to God the Son, to God the Holy Spirit, to sin, to Satan and to others.

Of course, “to help spread the word about water safety” is important, but I think to help spread the word about what the Bible says is more important than anything else.

That’s why I went as a missionary to Thailand.

We can learn from sunflowers.

“Tournesol” is the French word for sunflower. The meaning of “tournesol” is “turns with the sun.” Seeking out the sun and facing the sun, is what sunflowers do. They do that in their bud phase and heliotropism is this trait of the sunflower called.

The Bible teaches in Psalm 84:11 “For the LORD God is a sun and shield, the LORD bestows favor and honor.” And in Malachi 4:2 we read, “But for you, who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings.”

Throughout the Bible many wonderful names and titles are ascribed to the Lord Jesus Christ. Sun of righteousness is one.

I don’t know if you are familiar with the hymn “SUN OF MY SOUL?” Here is the first verse:

“Sun of my soul, Thou Savior dear, it is not night if Thou be near; O may no earth-born cloud arise to hide Thee from Thy servant’s eyes.”

Read also Matthew 17:2 and Revelation 1:16.

Just as sunflowers are literally seeking out the sun (the star that is source of heat and light for the planets in the solar system), and facing the sun, let us as believers in the Lord Jesus Christ seek the face of the Lord Jesus Christ, the sun of righteousness, as we are commanded in Psalm 105:4 and as David did in Psalm 27:8.