Today's Daily Lesson comes from Psalm 74 verses 15 and 16:
15 Yours is the day, yours also the night;
you established the moon and the sun.
16 You fixed all the boundaries of the earth;
you made both summer and winter.
The LORD is God over our days and also our nights, the lushness of summer's vegetation and also the stiff and bitter cold of winter. There is no time or season that is not also God's time and God's season. For God is with us for all time.
The day is rich and teeming with light and with life. The sun provides its warmth and its energy and all the earth is alive with zest and with vigor. But then the evening comes, the sun bows its head and the sky changes from a blue suit to then one of charcoal and finally into black. It would all be dark. But then stars appear and the moon gives off its light. The moon reflects its yesterday's light, which is always the promise of some new rise of dawn tomorrow. And when summer finishes its course and falls into winter, then all the earth becomes metaphor for the the great mystery which is life, and death, and then Resurrection.
The times are in God's hands. God has set their boundaries, their beginnings and their endings, and their beginnings again. The LORD is God of all these times. None is forsaken. None is without its gift. For God's is the day, and also the night, our summer of endless hours and also our winter when our hour has come.
"Summer and winter, and springtime and harvest,
Sun, moon and stars in their courses above,
Join with all nature in manifold witness
To Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love."
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