Today's Daily Lesson comes from Revelation chapter 21 verses 22 through 26:
22 I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. 23And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God is its light, and its lamp is the Lamb. 24The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it. 25Its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there. 26People will bring into it the glory and the honour of the nations.
I drove down I35 from Fort Worth to Austin and back last week. All along the highway I saw signs promoting the building of the wall on our Southern border. Somebody has spent a lot of money to put those signs up; and you can bet there will be more before the primaries.
I thought of those signs this morning as I read the Lesson from Revelation. There will be a wall in God's City the Good Book says. And that is good because almost all of us live within walls. Wall keep us safe, and warm; and they keep the rodents out.
But an interesting thing about God's City -- there's a wall, but there are also gates. And the gates are open every day, all day; and there is no night.
When there is no night to fear, fear is unfounded. People stream in from all nations, but they are not seen automatically as a threat. The gates remain open. It is telling.
God's City is not ruled by fear and fear mongering. It is not ruled by the fear the Other.
It is a vision of something to come. We are not there yet. But it is something to believe in and work towards.
May we never give up the vision.
Ryon Price is Senior Pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.
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