Today’s Daily Lesson comes from Luke 2:29:
“Sovereign Lord, as you have promised, you may now dismiss your servant in peace.”
Today is the 40th day after Christmas, the day upon which Mary and Joseph were said to have come to the Temple for the Presentation of Jesus.
Old Simeon was there in the Temple, waiting for the coming of the Lord before his death. In seeing the baby Jesus, he told God he was ready to go.
The time comes for every generation to be dismissed in peace: peace within one’s own soul, peace within the family, peace with all the earth and cosmos. It is a gift to be ready to go.
In recent days we’ve lost some mighty strong souls. And this year has been full of the passing of persons very significant to me personally. I mourn their losses, but know they were ready to go.
I think it was my pastor Charlie Johnson who I first heard say that the church teaches us how to die. The course of study is hard and it involves lots of continuing education. But we do learn by watching.
And one day, we’ll teach as well.
Ryon Price is Senior Pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.
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