Daily Lesson for July 7, 2020

Today's Daily Lesson comes from Isaiah chapter 6 verses 9 and 10:

‘Keep listening, but do not comprehend;

keep looking, but do not understand.’

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Make the mind of this people dull,

    and stop their ears,

    and shut their eyes,

so that they may not look with their eyes,

    and listen with their ears,

and comprehend with their minds,

    and turn and be healed.”

This morning's Lesson is a prophetic utterance about the perpetual state of human obstinance. 

We look, but we do not see; we listen but our ears are shut.

And as Desmond Tutu said, "The hardest person in the world to wake up is the person who is pretending to be asleep."

It is time for us to wake up.  This COVID crisis has grown out of hand down here in Texas and in other parts of the country.  Yesterday, Dallas reported its highest jump in hospitalizations since the virus first hit the United States.

It's time for us to wake up.

Verse 11 in the text asks, "How long, O Lord? The prophet wants to know how long people's minds will be dull and ears shut.  The answer isn't reassuring:

"Until cities lie waste without inhabitant,

and houses without people."

Houses have already lost people now, beautiful and beloved people -- 130,000 of them in America.

We could still lose many, many millions more. 

So let's keep the masks on and stop taking unnecessary risks.

NOTE: We are reading the whole Bible through this year.  Tomorrow's Lesson will be another word of a prophet, Amos chapters 1-5.