Today's Lesson comes from 2 John verses 4 through 6:
4 I was overjoyed to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as we have been commanded by the Father. 5 But now, dear lady, I ask you, not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but one we have had from the beginning, let us love one another. 6 And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment just as you have heard it from the beginning—you must walk in it.
It is Christmas Eve and I will be working today to put the final touches on tonight's homily and worship plans. It will be a night like no Christmas Eve other, as the doors to the church will be closed and the congregation will be at home.
This is a sad occasion, in that our wonderful traditions are disrupted; but worshiping virtually is a responsible thing to do. It is a loving thing to do.
Love came down at Christmas. And the message of the homily tonight is that this Love cloistered itself for nine months in a self-less and self-surrendering kind of love. Tonight as we cloister ourselves, we do the same in Love.
Now Faith, Hope, and Love abide -- even in a pandemic. And the greatest of these is Love.
NOTE: We are reading the whole Bible through this year. We are almost done! We are going to take tomorrow and the weekend off in observance of Christmas and beginning the final book Revelation Monday. Merry Christmas, everyone!
Ryon Price is the Senior Pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.
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