Today's Daily Lesson comes from Psalm 85 verses 10 and 11:
10 Steadfast love and faithfulness meet;
righteousness and peace kiss each other.
11 Faithfulness springs up from the ground,
and righteousness looks down from the sky.
Sometime ago some clergy friends and I were working on a project together directed at righting a wrong. We were strategizing and talking about how most to be successful. That's when the oldest member of our group stood up and said, "Wait a minute. We follow a Lord and Savior who was betrayed and abandoned by friends, ridiculed by the public, and ultimately hung from a cross. If we start out with success in mind we're on the wrong track. We aren't called to be successful; we're called to be faithful."
"Faithfulness springs from the ground . . . And righteousness looks down from the sky."
In other words, we're called to be faithful down here, and to trust that God will be faithful to make things right from up there.
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