The Sun
In the beginning, God said, "Let there be light!" Later, he crated the sun, moon, and lesser lights. As the Psalms say, "In His light we see light." In the New Heavens and New Earth, there will be no more sun, for the true light of God will replace this warm, bright symbol.
Now God causes his sun to shine on the good and the bad alike, bringing crops in season, rejoicing hearts with new wine. His mercies are new every morning, and great is his faithfulness.
There are days when the sun breaks through the clouds and we ride out renewed, feeling as bright as sunflowers blooming, as fresh as newborn babes, as bold as knights on horseback. His banner over us is love! We feel life-giving warmth, illumination, benevolence, grace...
The heavens declare the glory of God.
We feel the power of the sun, which rides like a bridegroom, rejoicing in its course from one end of the heavens to the other!
Those who rule justly will dawn like the morning light, rise like the sun on a cloudless morning, and rain like the dew on the sprouting grass.
The LORD God is a sun and a shield.
The LORD bestows favor and honor.
The sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings.
Restore us, O LORD God. of hosts.
Let your face shine upon us that we may be saved!
And we all with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to ever-increasing glory.
Now God causes his sun to shine on the good and the bad alike, bringing crops in season, rejoicing hearts with new wine. His mercies are new every morning, and great is his faithfulness.
There are days when the sun breaks through the clouds and we ride out renewed, feeling as bright as sunflowers blooming, as fresh as newborn babes, as bold as knights on horseback. His banner over us is love! We feel life-giving warmth, illumination, benevolence, grace...
The heavens declare the glory of God.
We feel the power of the sun, which rides like a bridegroom, rejoicing in its course from one end of the heavens to the other!
Those who rule justly will dawn like the morning light, rise like the sun on a cloudless morning, and rain like the dew on the sprouting grass.
The LORD God is a sun and a shield.
The LORD bestows favor and honor.
The sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings.
Restore us, O LORD God. of hosts.
Let your face shine upon us that we may be saved!
And we all with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to ever-increasing glory.
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