Today’s Daily Lesson comes from Revelation chapter 8 verses 10 and 11:
10 The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. 11The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many died from the water, because it was made bitter.
We live in a bitter time. The wormwood has been poured out upon the world; and many drink from its bitter waters, its poison killing the soul and destroying the community.
The wormwood is death. It’s bitterness consumes. But the bitterness of the times cannot destroy us. Only the bitterness we take into ourselves can destroy the soul. The wormwood and the fall destroy, but only from within — not out. You have to drink the water to die from the poison.
It’s a mark of resistance in these difficult days to not drink the water. We have to refuse to take the cup of wormwood and gall unto our lips. We have to hold out against bitterness. We have to keep hoping all things, believing all things, enduring all things. We have to keep loving. For love is the antidote to bitterness.
These are bitter times indeed. But the bitter times can only embitters us if we let them. The poison can only kill us if we drink it.
But if we refuse the poison, we live. And only the living can still change things.
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