Today’s Daily Lesson comes from Habakkuk chapter 2 verses 15 and 16:
15 ‘Alas for you who make your neighbours drink,
pouring out your wrath until they are drunk,
in order to gaze on their nakedness!’
16 You will be sated with contempt instead of glory.
Drink, you yourself, and stagger!
The cup in the Lord’s right hand
will come around to you,
and shame will come upon your glory!”
It’s Thanksgiving Week and a time for counting our blessings, praising God for God’s goodness, and thanking God for our bounty. This is the season for gratitude. And it’s a season we can pretty well all in unity agree on and observe.
But the forces of division roll on. They never stop their posting, pandering, tweeting, talking headedness, intended to divide and conquer — either the office, or the airwaves, or the Emmys.
So the Prophet Habakkuk comes today giving warning to those who wish to make us drunk on their wrath. There is no future in wrath or hatred; and what they make others to drink will one day be their end. For the cup that goes round comes round also.
As for the rest of us. Again, here we have a word of warning to be on guard against our own exploitation. We should not be complicit in our own poisoning. We must resist the cup of hatred and wrath. We must say no to all the anger others would have us to consume and be drunk on.
And the way to resist the cup of wrath is surely indeed gratitude and Thanksgiving and sharing a table this week with someone who sees the world a whole lot differently, but is still in the end still our very own flesh and blood and also human too.
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