Daily Lesson for April 28, 2021

 Today's Daily Lesson comes from the book of Wisdom chapter 4 verse 16:

The righteous who have died will condemn the ungodly who are living,

and youth that is quickly ended will condemn the prolonged old age of the unrighteous.

We have opened our church back up in limited capacity and are planning for further re-openings this summer on into the fall. We give thanks for the vaccines that have allowed us to do so.

But even as these plans are under way, we read the headlines coming out of India and they are ghastly. This pandemic is not over. People are still dying in the thousands and tens of thousands. And we who have been vaccinated still have responsibility to bear.

I am glad the United States has made a decision to assist with vaccines in India. We have a responsibility to help provide vaccines not only in India but around the globe.

The Scriptures teach us over, and over again that we have a responsibility to our fellow humanity. This responsibility is beyond self, beyond family, and beyond tribe, and beyond border.

God does not see the same lines of separation we see on the globe. Neither does the virus, nor -- according to today's Lesson -- it's victims.

Let's continue to be safe, careful, kind, and compassionate. We still have responsibilities to bear and will one day have to give an account for what we've done and left undone, how we helped, and how we hurt.

And Jesus said something like, "And when my people were sick, you helped."

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