Today’s Daily Lesson comes from Psalm 69 verses 9 and 10:
9 I have become a stranger to my own kindred,
an alien to my mother's children.
10 Zeal for your house has eaten me up;
the scorn of those who scorn you has fallen upon me.
Flannery O’Connor once said, “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.”
So many I know have lost relationship with friends, and family, and loved ones over their understanding of the truth and the import of telling it.
Rarely does a week go by without me receiving a text or call from someone who has come to a point of utter estrangement. It’s tough, and they often feel so alone — especially in these parts. It can feel like a lonesome valley.
But it is not altogether lonesome.
There are brothers and sisters and whole churches full of friends also to be gained (Mark 10:29). There are others out there looking to share firelight and life.
Jesus knew the rejection too. His mother and his brothers thought he had lost his mind. His hometown tried to kill him. But painful as those things were, He couldn’t in good conscience be anyone other than who He was.
Flannery O’Connor was right, the truth will make us odd.
But it will also make us free.
Ryon Price is Senior Pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.
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