Today’s Daily Lesson comes from Psalm 31 verse 21:
“Blessed be the Lord!
for he has shown me the wonders of his love in a besieged city.”
A besieged city is the last place one would look to find the wonders of God’s love. When we think of a besieged city we think of its horrors — pestilence, hoarding, the fear of the walls falling.
And yet, the Psalmist speaks of finding God’s love in this shut in city. Where? What might he have seen?
A young boy sharing a few loaves of bread.
The birds coming to offer themselves as sacrifice for the sake of God’s people.
Clothes on the back not wearing thin.
A spring of water from beneath the ground.
A spring of joy at the Sabbath reading.
Love and sex and a little girl picking flowers clothed like Solomon beneath the sun’s rays.
Maybe these are the miracles — not deliverance this time, but the wonders of God’s love hidden inside a world of walls.
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