Daily Lesson for December 13, 2021

 Today's Daily Lesson comes from Revelation chapter 3 verses 10 through 12:

10Because you have kept my word of patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth. 11I am coming soon; hold fast to what you have, so that no one may seize your crown. 12If you conquer, I will make you a pillar in the temple of my God; you will never go out of it.

We've said goodbye to some pillars in the church this year.

Strong, anchors of faith and stability for not only seasons or years, but decades upon decades. The pillars held everything together for generations.

Now, they've gone on to stand stable and strong in the house of the Lord eternal.

That means that down here new pillars arise. New strength is found. Strength and endurance is passed down to another generation.

So the church still stands, and the community is held together.

Go to a place like Ephesus or Greece or certain places around Israel and you'll see that ancient pillars still stand 2,000 or 3,000 years after they were built. They've remained for millennia.

Faith, hope, and love remain. They endure.

And so too does God's house -- on earth as it is in heaven.

Thanks be to God.

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