Daily Lesson for February 19, 2021

 Today’s Daily Lesson comes from Psalm 31 verse 21:

“Blessed be the Lord! 

for he has shown me the wonders of his love in a

besieged city.”

When you think about this whole week in Texas and what a mess so many have on their hands, its frustrating and overwhelming and even downright infuriating.  This was a public utility failure, but private citizens are the victims.  Homes and houses of worship are the victims. And the burden has fallen heaviest on those with the least. 

Yet through it all, I’ve seen such coming together.  I’ve seen neighbors looking after neighbors, first responders aiding homeless, fire fighters turning off water valves for folks standing out in the frigid cold in their pajamas and LL Bean boots, Sunday School teachers opening extra rooms for class members, and a plumber on all fours beside the furnace in my own home after he gathered with his wife and children — one of which is two weeks born — and prayed that he could “help somebody” that morning, and plenty folks still remembering to fill the bird feeder, and some even help warm the frozen sea turtles. 

And yesterday, I literally saw with my own eyes the face of a black Jesus in the floor of a flood Eastside church, the image of Jesus reflected in the standing water from the centerpiece on the sanctuary wall. 

That’s it, we’ve seen Jesus present in the midst of all this, and — as the Pslamist says — “the wonders of his love in city besieged” by cold weather and poor planning. 

And day by day, we are still making it . . .

Ryon Price is Senior Pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.