Today's Daily Lesson comes from Luke chapter 6 verses 23 and 23:
22 ‘Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you, revile you, and defame you on account of the Son of Man. 23Rejoice on that day and leap for joy, for surely your reward is great in heaven; for that is what their ancestors did to the prophets.
The Southern writer Flannery O'Connor said, "You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you odd."
To know the truth is to live at odds with untruth of the world. To see the truth is to see and believe differently than before -- differently, perhaps, than the textbooks, or the teachers, or the community at-large. To know and seek to live the truth may very well make us oddballs.
"They're turning the world upside down!" was the charge levied against the disciples in the book of Acts and it's been the charge ever since. For whoever sees an upside down world as rightside up will see those turning the world rightside up and say they're turning it upside down.
We shall know the truth and the truth shall make us odd.
So get ready.
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