Today's Daily Lesson comes from Ephesians chapter 4 verses 25 through 27:
25 So then, putting away falsehood, let all of us speak the truth to our neighbours, for we are members of one another. 26Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27and do not make room for the devil.
Beloved, have strength today. Speak your truth. And speak it in love.
As Bill Coffin used to say, "The world is too dangerous for anything but truth, and too small for anything but love."
It is a dangerous world and these are dangerous times. Prophetic truth must be spoken. We have to speak up at family gatherings, and backyard parties, barber and beauty shops, fraternity meetings, high school reunions, school board meetings, and at the office of Sen. John Cornyn.
We can be angry. Holy rage is a sacrament of our salvation.
But like any sacrament, it can be profaned. So, as the Lesson says today, we can be angry; but we must not sin in our anger.
The world is too small for anything but love. Anything other than love will be recorded, shared, and viewed a trillion times. So we've got to temper our emotions, and channel them positively. Love must flow through everything we say and do.
Don't let the sun go down on your anger. Don't let it fester. Don't let it kill you. Find a way to channel it. Find others to channel it with you. Plan, organize, write, vote, gather and do something beautiful.
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth, too small for anything but love, and too holy for anything other than what is beautiful and kind.
Ryon Price is Senior Pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.
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