Today’s Daily Lesson comes from Luke chapter 1 verses 78 and 79:
78 By the tender mercy of our God,
the dawn from on high will break upon us,
79 to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,
to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Into this darkest time of the year the star appears; and to those who fumbled their way around desperate and searching in the dark the light shined.
This is the way we are always saved — in the depths of our deepest darkness, when we can’t save ourselves or anybody else and we finally realize how silly it all is to even try.
We stop where we are. We sit down. We look up. And right there, out of nowhere a new light comes, just enough light to get us up again.
In the dayblindness of the sun’s light we would never see the star. We would never know we need it. But in the pitch of dark we’re desperate for it. And into the darkness the light shines.
Christmas comes at the darkest time of the year. It comes when we’re most desperate for the light. And when the star appears we rejoice.
We rejoice because the very light of very light has come into the world just when we needed its gift of grace.
And so the Hallelujah Chorus began . . .
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