Today's Daily Lesson comes from Colossians chapter 1 verses 11 and 12:
11May you be made strong with all the strength that comes from his glorious power, and may you be prepared to endure everything with patience, while joyfully 12giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light.
"The LORD is our refuge and our strength," the Psalmist says, "our very present help in times of trouble" (Psalm 46). So we are not to fear the days that lie ahead of us. God will be our strength and will grant to us a supernatural strength so that we will be able to endure whatever pain or struggles or heartache might be our lot.
The Daily Lesson is a kind of prayer of blessing. "May you be prepared to endure everything with patience." We can be assured that we are being prepared; for God is preparing us. God is readying us for all that is to come. We need not fear.
Today is the Feast of St. Julian of Norwich in the Liturgical Calendar. I close with her fitting and encouraging words: "All shall be well; and all manner of things shall be well."
Indeed.
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