Devotion for Monday, March 16, The Third Week of Lent
Luke 12:32 | Fear not, little flock. For it is your father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
I think we need a little “Flanagan and Allen” today. They were a British vaudeville couple who sang in the 1930s and ‘40s. These were hard times and they sang of ordinary people and simple real feelings. One song I love is called, “On the Outside Looking In.”
We’re always on the outside
On the outside always looking in.
We, never know where fortunes are made
For, the sun when it shines finds us both in the shade.
We’re always on the ebb-tide
But we’ll keep on trying ‘till we win
Cause I know someday we gonna be on the Inside
Instead of the outside always looking in.
I can’t think of a better Hymn. A more enlightened testimony to real hope.
Because maybe right now, more than ever, we know what it is to be. On the outside…
“What is God doing?” “What is the plan here?”
This is why people are hoarding toilet paper—to get a little control.
But we know better. We are going to be on the inside someday.
“If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to the Father to make a place for you?” (John 14:2).
And just sometimes, even now, we are already there.
I learned this song from my father who sang it to me. Then, and now, it was a little bit of the Kingdom. And now I give it to you…
PRAYER
Oh God, thank you for hope.
Thank you for making a safe place for us,
even now as we wait to be right up close to you.