Today's Daily Lesson comes from Hebrews chapter 6 verses 10 and 11:
10For God is not unjust; he will not overlook your work and the love that you showed for his sake in serving the saints, as you still do. 11And we want each one of you to show the same diligence, so as to realize the full assurance of hope to the very end.
This morning I will drive to the Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery to officiate the burial service for Dr. Jack Coldiron, a 94-year-old man who died last week after a lifetime of service to the church. He was a church singer, minister of music, and university and seminary professor for generations of students. He was also a Deacon Emeritus of Broadway Baptist Church.
It is unfortunate that because we are not yet singing in church, we will have to wait on a service of memorial to take place in the sanctuary. Like so many others who have passed amidst the pandemic, he awaits a more proper recognition.
Yet even if these were not to come, we are promised this morning that God has not overlooked Jack's service and the service of all these others saints of now blessed memory.
What they have done has mattered. And whether properly recognized or not at the end, we trust that God sees and God remembers, and God honors.
God does not overlook our work. So, we stay steady at the plow. We plant, and we water, and in Jack's case, we sing and teach others to do likewise. And we trust that God enjoys the music.
It lives on.
Ryon Price is Senior Pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.
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