Today’s Daily Lesson comes from Psalm 89 verses 8 and 13-14:
8 Who is like you, Lord God of hosts? *
O mighty Lord, your faithfulness is all around you.
13 You have a mighty arm; *
strong is your hand and high is your right hand.
14 Righteousness and justice are the foundations of your throne; *
love and truth go before your face.
The foundations of God’s throne are righteousness and justice, and love and truth go before God’s throne.
Meanwhile down here in Texas, the state GOP is still falsely denying the legitimacy of the 2020 election, passing cruel judgments about LGBTQ persons, and calling for a referendum on secession from the United States of America.
Lord a’mighty, what has happened to the party of Lincoln and Douglass in Texas?
The foundations are rattled. Righteousness, justice, love, and truth are all in peril.
And as James Russell Lowell wrote in 1845 about the war that breach-birthed this state, half-slave and half-free:
“Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side . . .
Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside,
Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.”
Let all people of goodwill stop fooling around with this foolish madness, and take their stand for the foundations of truth, righteousness, love, and justice for all.
The date of the future is too precarious for us to pretend not to see all that is at stake.
Ryon Price is Senior Pastor of Broadway Church in Fort Worth, Texas.
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