Daily Lesson for June 21, 2017

Today's Daily Lesson comes from Psalm 82 verses 6 and 7:

6 Now I say to you, 'You are gods, 

and all of you children of the Most High;

7 Nevertheless, you shall die like mortals, 

and fall like any prince.

Now here is a proper perspective on what it means to be human. 

We are made in the image of God, God-breathed, and God-blessed and so like God that we might be said to be gods.

And yet, we are also dust and to dust we shall return. We are mortals. We fall and get up. We fall again and can't help ourselves. We are not God. I am not God.  I know I am not God. 

Somewhere along the spiritual (human) journey, it is important to come to terms with who we are, to see ourselves as gods and also not God.  For the Scylla and Charybdis which can destroy any human soul is to think either too highly or too lowly of oneself. 

We are gods; but we are not God. Getting that in proper perspective will save us from hubris and also from timidity.