Crescent Beach - “Christ Died for Us”

 

You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.  Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die.  But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 5:6-8

Marineland - “Behold, God is My Salvation”

“Behold, God is my salvation;
    I will trust, and will not be afraid;
for the Lord God[a] is my strength and my song,
    and he has become my salvation.

Isaiah 12:2

Shores Drive Park - “Each Night I Sing His Songs”

 

 But each day the Lord pours his unfailing love upon me, 

and through each night I sing his songs, 

praying to God who gives me life.

Psalm 42:8

Shores Waterfront Park - “Be My Love in the Rain”

 

Oh, come forth into the storm and rout  
And be my love in the rain.

Robert Frost

Fort Matanzas Beach - “Examine My Heart and My Mind”

 Test me, LORD, and try me, examine my heart and my mind; for I have always been mindful of your unfailing love and have lived in reliance on your faithfulness.

Psalm 26:2-3

North Beach, Florida - “Mightier than the Waves of the Sea”

 

Mightier than the thunder of the great waters, mightier than the breakers of the sea, the Lord on high is mighty.

Psalm 93:4

“See How the Flowers of the Field Grow”

 

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 

Matthew 6:25-30

Moultrie Creek, Shores Drive Park - “I See the Heavens Opened”

  

But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,  And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.

Acts 7:55-56

Shores Waterfront Park - “Heart of the People Moved as the Trees of the Woods Moved with the Wind”

 

Now it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to make war against it, but could not prevail against it. And it was told to the house of David, saying, “Syria’s forces are deployed in Ephraim.” So his heart and the heart of his people were moved as the trees of the woods are moved with the wind.

Isaiah 7:1-2

Commentary:  King Ahaz and his people react with fear instead of with trust in God. They are shaken and unstable in their hearts.

 In this, the people of Judah really are the people of Ahaz, not the people of the LORD. God was not shaken or unsettled by this threat. If the king of Judah and the people of Judah had put their trust in the LORD, they would have had the peace of God in this conflict.

Matanzas Inlet - “When You Pass Through the Waters”

But now, this is what the LORD says— he who created you, Jacob, he who formed you, Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine. 

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze.

Isaiah 43:1-2

“Hear, O Heavens and Give Ear, O Earth”

 

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth;
    for the Lord has spoken:
“Children have I reared and brought up,
    but they have rebelled against me.
3 The ox knows its owner,
    and the donkey its master's crib,
but Israel does not know,
    my people do not understand.”

Isaiah 1:2-3 

Atlantic - “Who has Measured the Waters?”

Who has measured the waters
In the hollow of his hand, 
Measured Heaven with a span,
And calculated the dust of the earth
In a measure?  Weighted the mountains
In scales and the hills in a balance?

Isaiah 40:12

Moultrie Creek - “Face of the Waters”

The earth was without form,

And void, and darkness was on

The face of the deep.  And the 

Spirit of God hovering over the face

Of the waters.

And God said, “Let there be light”;

And there was light.

Genesis 1:2-3

Fort Matanzas Beach - “He Drew Me Out of Many Waters”

 He sent from above, He took me;
He drew me out of many waters.
He delivered me from my strong enemy,
From those who hate me,
For they were too strong for me.

Psalm 18:16-17

Bulow Creek, Flagler Beach - "In Wisdom You have Made Them All"

 O LORD, how manifold are Your works!

In wisdom You have made them all.

The earth is full of Your possessions--

This great and wide sea,

In which are innumerable teeming things,

Living things both small and great.

Psalm 104:24-25 NIV

Bulow Plantation ruins Historic State Park - "One Day is as a Thousand Years"

 But, beloved, do not forget

this one thing, that with the Lord

one day is as a thousand years,

and a thousand years as one day.

The Lord is not slack concerning

His promise, as some count 

slackness, but is longsuffering

toward us, not willing

that any should perish but that

all should come to repentance.

2 Peter 3:8-9 NIV

Creekview Trail, Princess Place Preserve - "You have made Summer and Winter"

 

You broke open the fountain and the flood; 

You dried up mighty rivers.

The day is Yours, the night also is Yours;

You have prepared the light and the sun,

You have set all the borders of the earth;

You have made summer and winter.

Psalm 74:15-17 NIV

Shores Waterfront Park, Matanzas River - “No One will take Your Joy From You”

So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.

John 16:22 (ESV)

East Bulter Park, St. Augustine Beach - "The Work of Your Fingers"

 When I consider Your

heavens, the work of

Your fingers,

The moon and the stars,

which You have

ordained,

What is man that You are

mindful of him,

And the sone of man that

You visit him?

For You have made him a 

little lower than the

angels,

And You have crowned him

with glory and honor.

Psalm 8:3-5

Shores Waterfront Park, St. Augustine, Florida - "The Rising of the Sun"

 

From the rising of the sun 

to its setting
The name of the LORD
is to be praised.
Psalm 113:3