Today's Daily Lesson comes from Isaiah chapter 2 verses 12 through 22:
12 For the Lord of hosts has a day
against all that is proud and lofty,
against all that is lifted up—and it shall be brought low;
13 against all the cedars of Lebanon,
lofty and lifted up;
and against all the oaks of Bashan;
14 against all the lofty mountains,
and against all the uplifted hills;
15 against every high tower,
and against every fortified wall;
16 against all the ships of Tarshish,
and against all the beautiful craft.
17 And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled,
and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low,
and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
18 And the idols shall utterly pass away.
19 And people shall enter the caves of the rocks
and the holes of the ground,
from before the terror of the Lord,
and from the splendor of his majesty,
when he rises to terrify the earth.
20 In that day mankind will cast away
their idols of silver and their idols of gold,
which they made for themselves to worship,
to the moles and to the bats,
21 enter the caverns of the rocks
and the clefts of the cliffs,
from before the terror of the Lord,
and from the splendor of his majesty,
when he rises to terrify the earth.
22 Stop regarding man
in whose nostrils is breath,
for of what account is he?
Some time ago I was reading a collection of sermons from Gardner C Taylor, the great 20th century pulpiteer and mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In the sermon, Dr. Taylor referred to the finest hour of preaching in all of the 20 centuries since Christ.
The occasion was the funeral oration for King Louis XIV of France, often referred to as "Henry the Great", when Jean Baptiste Masillon stood in the pulpit of the basilica of St Denis and famously began his funeral oration with these leveling words: "Dieu seul est gran." -- Only God is great.
The LORD of Hosts has a day. For Castro, for Trump, for Obama, for me. The LORD of Hosts has a day. And on that day it will be proven true. Only God is great.
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