Today’s Daily Lesson comes from Exodus chapter 27 verses 20 through 21:
20 You shall further command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of beaten olives for the light, so that a lamp may be set up to burn regularly. 21 In the tent of meeting, outside the curtain that is before the covenant, Aaron and his sons shall tend it from evening to morning before the Lord. It shall be a perpetual ordinance to be observed throughout their generations by the Israelites.
We tend the light, even in the midnight hours. When all the rest of the world is asleep, or for fear simply pretending to be, there is still someone up, in the tent of meeting, watching over the light, and keeping its vigil.
It is dark out there, and we have a long time before the first rays of dawn will be seen. We have just begun the fourth watch, and sunrise is still a long ways off. But with the lamp of the soul and the oil of God’s Spirit, we will make it through the night; and the light will shine in the darkness and the darkness shall not overcome it . . .
NOTE: We are reading the whole Bible this year. Monday’s Lesson will come from Exodus chapters 28 through 35.
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