Daily Lesson for June 2, 2021

 Today's Daily Lesson comes from 2 Corinthians chapter 7 verses 5 and 6:

5 For even when we came into Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were afflicted in every way—disputes without and fears within. 6But God, who consoles the downcast, consoled us by the arrival of Titus . . .

The other day I was talking with a friend who asked me an old John Claypool question, "What's saving your soul right now?"

My answer: Friendship.

Good friends can help us through the hard times. They are sounding boards, and prayer partners, and folks we can say what we really think around -- and then have what we think changed by what it is that they think.

Friends encourage us, they steel us, and they make us laugh -- even in the hard times.

Good friends also keep us honest, and humble, and out of trouble.

There's a reason why Jesus sent his disciples out two by two, because it's never been good for man to be alone -- nor woman either.

Yesterday, I gathered with some other pastor friends for about an hour and a half. It's the first time many of us had seen each other in person in 15 months, though we gathered together on ZOOM quite a bit during the pandemic.

We laughed a lot yesterday, and told preacher stories. We talked about sermons, and family, and whiskey, and politics, and lost sheep, and lost shepherds.

And at the risk of making too much of it, I'd say it saved our lives -- at least for another day.

And that's good enough for now.

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