June 23, 2018 Saturday)
In yesterday’s blog we pictured ourselves experiencing a warm summer day that made us feel lazy in the noonday sun, a reflection of the previous day’s blog about “Summertime.” We have found a hymn that I think goes right along with the ideas of those two blogs; it is entitled, “Sunlight,” and is very familiar to most of us who have attended Baptist churches through the years.
SUNLIGHT
Judson W. Van DeVenter
Winfield S. Weeden
1897
I wandered in the shades of night,
Till Jesus came to me,
And with the sunlight of His love
Bid all my darkness flee.
Refrain:
Sunlight, sunlight in my soul today,
Sunlight, sunlight all along the way;
Since the Savior found me, took away my sin,
I have had the sunlight of His love within.
Though clouds may gather in the sky,
And billows ’round me roll,
However dark the world may be
I’ve sunlight in my soul.
While walking in the light of God,
I sweet communion find;
I press with holy vigor on
And leave the world behind.
I cross the wide, extended fields,
I journey o’er the plain,
And in the sunlight of His love
I reap the golden grain.
Soon I shall see Him as He is,
The Light that came to me;
Behold the brightness of His face,
Throughout eternity.
Judson W. Van DeVenter
Winfield S. Weeden
1897
I wandered in the shades of night,
Till Jesus came to me,
And with the sunlight of His love
Bid all my darkness flee.
Refrain:
Sunlight, sunlight in my soul today,
Sunlight, sunlight all along the way;
Since the Savior found me, took away my sin,
I have had the sunlight of His love within.
Though clouds may gather in the sky,
And billows ’round me roll,
However dark the world may be
I’ve sunlight in my soul.
While walking in the light of God,
I sweet communion find;
I press with holy vigor on
And leave the world behind.
I cross the wide, extended fields,
I journey o’er the plain,
And in the sunlight of His love
I reap the golden grain.
Soon I shall see Him as He is,
The Light that came to me;
Behold the brightness of His face,
Throughout eternity.