Today's Daily Lesson comes from Amos chapter 3 verses 4 through 6:
4 Does a lion roar in the forest,
when it has no prey?
Does a young lion cry out from its den,
if it has caught nothing?
5 Does a bird fall into a snare on the earth,
when there is no trap for it?
Does a snare spring up from the ground,
when it has taken nothing?
6 Is a trumpet blown in a city,
and the people are not afraid?
Denial ain't a river in Egypt.
It's right here, right near, anywhere anyone isn't ready to face reality.
But reality can be hard to accept, so a lot of parents pretended their adult children's long stints alone in the bathroom over Thanksgiving weren't that abnormal.
Or, they tell themselves that lump they feel is nothing.
Or, they whistle in the dark, acting like a still ongoing "Stop the Steal" movement isn't an ongoing threat to our democracy.
And I remember Desmond Tutu said, "The hardest person in the world to wake up is the person who's only pretending to be asleep."
Advent is a time for waking up. It's a time for opening the eyes and facing reality.
As the prophet Amos says this morning, "There's lions out there."
Don't act like the sound of their roar isn't saying something.
Ryon Price is Senior Pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.
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