Narrative Lectionary Key Verse for Today
“A mortal, born of woman, few of days and full of trouble, comes up like a flower and withers, flees like a shadow and does not last.”
NL Daily Devotion for Saturday, June 20, 2020
by R. Fergus Moir, Clergy Stuff
Job muses on death a lot. There’s not much else to do when you’ve lost absolutely everything and are simply sitting around in complete misery while your so-called friends keep telling you it must be something you did wrong.
Those of us in the U.S. don’t like to think about death. Maybe if we don’t talk about it, it won’t happen. Except it will, and it’s important to claim that. The Bible is full of literature in which writers contemplate the transience of human existence. It’s included in God’s word for a reason. God sits with us in our contemplation of our finitude, holds us as we struggle, breathes hope into our fear. We are called to remember, as many of us say on Ash Wednesday, “you are dust and to dust you shall return.” Of course, death does not have the last word. God in Christ Jesus brings us from death into new life. But to truly grasp the incredible gift that this is, we must recognize the reality of being human, frail flesh that will one day die.
Do I take time to reflect on my death? Or do I try to avoid thinking about it?
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