Daily Lesson for December 17, 2021

 Today’s Daily Lesson comes from Revelation chapter 5 verses 11 through 13:

11 Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels surrounding the throne and the living creatures and the elders; they numbered myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, 12singing with full voice,

‘Worthy is the Lamb that was slaughtered

to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might

and honour and glory and blessing!’ 

13Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, singing,

‘To the one seated on the throne and to the Lamb

be blessing and honour and glory and might

for ever and ever!’ 

Peter Storey, a former Duke professor and the right hand man for Desmond Tutu during the anti-apartheid struggle, visited East Berlin in the days just after the fall of the Berlin Wall.  He saw a little church near the Wall with a small and understated sign out front.  "The Lamb wins," it said.

We are coming down to the end of the year. The nights are at their longest in the Northern Hemisphere.  We do not know what the next year will hold. 

But as we read Revelation the apocalyptic words assure. The Lamb will win. 

And to Him be all blessing and honour and glory and might for ever and ever.

And to us the courage to keep walking in the night . . . 

Ryon Price is Senior Pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.