Today's Daily Lesson comes from Psalm 133:
How very good and pleasant it is
when kindred live together in unity!
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It is like the precious oil on the head,
running down upon the beard,
on the beard of Aaron,
running down over the collar of his robes.
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It is like the dew of Hermon,
which falls on the mountains of Zion.
For there the Lord ordained his blessing,
life forevermore.
We are reading the Bible through this year and most of the daily readings have been fairly long in order to get us through both Testaments in one year. But this morning's reading is short -- very short, because the daily readings are chronologically assigned so we can read the texts in the basic context in which they were written or written about.
Today's Psalm comes just after the anointing of David as king. After years of civil war and unrest, David comes to the throne to unite the people -- tribes from north and south, east and west -- into one federated unity. After generations of internecine conflict and then the disaster of Saul' kingship, David came to the throne with promise for a new day in Israel. Unity is then the theme of this Psalm.
"How very good and pleasant it is when kindred live together in unity!" Indeed. It is good and it is pleasant when a leader arises who can lead the people out of the curse of division and into the blessedness of unity.
May it be so for our churches, and for our cities, and for our nation, and even for our world.
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