Today’s Daily Lesson comes from Psalm 38 verses 1 through 8:
O Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger; *
do not punish me in your wrath.
2 For your arrows have already pierced me, *
and your hand presses hard upon me.
3 There is no health in my flesh,
because of your indignation; *
there is no soundness in my body, because of my sin.
4 For my iniquities overwhelm me; *
like a heavy burden they are too much for me to bear.
5 My wounds stink and fester *
by reason of my foolishness.
6 I am utterly bowed down and prostrate; *
I go about in mourning all the day long.
7 My loins are filled with searing pain; *
there is no health in my body.
8 I am utterly numb and crushed; *
I wail, because of the groaning of my heart.
Last year, I read Brad Kelle’s book “The Bible and Moral Injury: Reading Scripture Alongside War’s Hidden Wounds”.
There are many hidden wounds in the Bible. There are also many hidden wounds in all of us.
The ugliness of our public discourse or simply seemingly-ordinary conversation dredges up all kinds of sorrow and pain.
Victims are made into criminals. The helpless are made to hurt. The past comes back to punish and haunt. Unseen wounds are reopened.
Please be gentle and kind to one another.
Understand, the person before you — in person or on social media — may be carrying many, heavy stones.
If we knew, we would see — they are a miracle.
Ryon Price is Senior Pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.
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