Today's Daily Lesson comes from Psalm 78 verse 14:
"He led them with a cloud by day,
and all the night through with a glow of fire."
God knows just what we need for the time that we are in.
Sometimes it is dark and the nights are long and cold and what we most need is the glow of firelight to keep us warm and keep us moving. The firelight is strong and draws all eyes to itself amidst the blackness of the night.
At other times, the light is entirely too much for us to bear. The sun is too strong, dayblinding us with its rays which bear down upon our bodies and bounce up into our eyes. God said, "Let there be light," but there is a such thing as too much light, too much exposure. For such a time as this, there is cloud and mist and obfuscation. God is present, but not obvious as with fire. For here in the daylight to see God fully in all God's glory would be too much; we would surely die. So God's presence is opaque and obscure, overcast with limited visibility. There is just enough visibility to keep us walking.
God is in both the cloud and also the pillar of fire. One draws us with the primordial power of brightness and we come like moths to the flame. And the other canopies us, lest like Icarus we come too near the sun.
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