Thursday, September 18, 2014

Daily Lesson for September 18, 2014


Today's daily lesson is from Psalm 74 verse 19:

"Do not deliver the soul of your dove to the wild beasts."

There is something pure and innocent and God-like within us all.  It is our "imago dei" or divine image. It is beautiful, holy, peaceful, joyfully childlike, loving, and willing to receive love.  It is the "heart of my own heart" we sing about, and the beauty of who we are without our hardened out shells which we hide under to protect us from our fears and anxieties about failure and hurt. It's image is the dove - the symbol of grace and purity.

The world seeks to devour our inner dove. It seeks to destroy that imago dei and turn us into its image - an image of harshness, brutality and dog eat dog worldliness. This is why the psalmist uses the image of the wild beast - because "its desire is to consume" us.

The task of the spiritual life is to live in this dog eat dove world without losing our souls. When we have learned to do that, we will have learned to live as Christ.

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