Daily Lesson for October 27, 2020

 Today's Daily Lesson comes from Luke chapter 18 verses 1 through 8:

Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart. 2 He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people. 3 In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Grant me justice against my opponent.’ 4 For a while he refused; but later he said to himself, ‘Though I have no fear of God and no respect for anyone, 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will grant her justice, so that she may not wear me out by continually coming.’” 6 And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. 7 And will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long in helping them? 8 I tell you, he will quickly grant justice to them. And yet, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”

"And not lose heart."

That is such a strong and pertinent phrase for us right now. For it is so easy to lose heart and to despair.

But, as John Claypool used to say, "Despair is presumptuous." In other words, it presumes that all there is is all that is seen. But there is still so much more going on that what we see in our news feed. There is so much more going on underground. Above the earth, the Fall is giving way to winter here in North America. The leaves have all changed their colors and will soon fall to the earth. Everything seems to be dying. But beneath the ground, there is still life.

"In the cold and snow of winter there's a spring that waits to be, unrevealed until its season, something God alone can see."

And let us speak of God. Let us pray to God now. And let us trust that God will hear and act. For even the unjust judge was prevailed upon; how much more so the God who is justice and righteousness?

Do not despair, little flock. Do not lose heart. Stay steadfast. Pray without ceasing. Trust the hidden to be revealed in its own season.

And when the Son of Man comes, may he find faith on and even in the God's green earth.

NOTE: We are reading the whole Bible through this year. Tomorrow we will read Matthew 19 and Mark 10.