Today’s Daily Lesson comes from Revelation chapter 5 verses 1 through 5:
Then I saw in the right hand of the one seated on the throne a scroll written on the inside and on the back, sealed with seven seals; 2and I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, ‘Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?’ 3And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it. 4And I began to weep bitterly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to look into it. 5Then one of the elders said to me, ‘Do not weep. See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.’
As we come to the end of the year, and darkness settles deep over this part of the earth, it is a time when worry and fear about the future can set in.
We worry about what is to come of this country and this earth.
We fret over the lives and wellbeing of our children.
If you are in church leadership, you wonder if there will be any manna left after all the turmoil of the past couple of years.
If you watch the news, you worry over the climate, the economy, and the state of the electorate.
It is overwhelming, and there is reason to see why John of Patmos wept bitterly for fear of what was inside the scroll in today’s Lesson.
But hear this good news, friends. Though we do not know what all is to come of this earth; the promise is that the Lion is with us; and He has the power to open the scroll.
In C.S. Lewis’s “The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe” it is said of the Lion amidst a world that is “always winter, and never Christmas” that the Lion “isn’t safe. But he’s good.”
Things may not be safe. But the Lion is good. And He has the power to open the scroll so Christmas can come again.
And we will not fear.
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