The Cross

“Praise the LORD, O my soul,

Psalm 103:2-5

Intr.:

and forget not all his benefits –

1.  who forgives all your sins and

heals all your diseases,

2.  who redeems your life from the pit and

crowns you with love and compassion,

3.  who satisfies your desires with good things

End:

so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.”

Car Rally of the North today in Kaitaia.

I told some of the Rally people that I am a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ.

One of the Rally Cars

A temporary service station

A car is being serviced at one of the temporary service stations

Two rally cars turning right

I learned today why the sunflower is called sunflower. The heads turn from east to west. They are following the sun.

SUNFLOWER

In Psalm 84:11 we read, “FOR THE LORD GOD IS A SUN AND A SHIELD; …”

I am wondering if we should learn something?

Who knows the name of this flower?

“Light is shed upon the righteous and joy on the upright in heart.” – Psalm 97:11

Who knows the name of this flower?

“Let those who love the LORD hate evil, for he guards the lives of his faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked.” – Psalm 97:10

Sunshine

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, …”

E. Hewitt is the author of the hymn:

“There is SUNSHINE IN MY SOUL today,

More glorious and bright,

Than GLOWS IN THE EARTHLY SKY,

For Jesus is my light.”

He lived from 1851-1920.