With today being the federal holiday celebrating and honoring Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. ‘s birthday, I thought it would be appropriate to take a moment to remember his famous “I Have a Dream” speech and what God did in our midst through his life and in that season. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke for an entire generation. The power of his message did not emerge from large crowds. Sure, he certainly spoke in front of large crowds, but the authority of which he spoke was not from the results of the crowds that he gathered, or even his advocates for civil rights, or even our founding documents. The authority with which Dr. King thundered against the hatred and bigotry at the time, came from the word of God.
We need to remember that the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s coincided with an outpouring of the spirit of our great nation. That’s not speculation or theory, it’s actual history. We made progress in how we lived together because we made room for a place we allowed God to occupy in our hearts.
The idea that every person is equal before God and therefore should be equal before the law comes to us from scripture and not from the government. Unfortunately, this notion has been amended in recent years. The current mantra of equity is a poorly disguised attempt to gain power. You see, when we promise any type of outcome to any group of people, it makes all of us susceptible to the manipulation of those who are predetermining the outcomes. Because who is in charge at the moment may change and they will predetermine the outcome for some other group of people. It is far better to have equal opportunity than it is to have promised predetermined outcomes. After all, that’s what freedom is all about.
Participation trophies for all is a dishonest and manipulative approach to leadership, cultural, and character development. The current trajectory is unsustainable. Authoritarian control and forfeiture of our freedoms await us unless we change and stop being so willing to give these up so easily. We have to understand that the people running this country, such as Joe Biden, could care less about the violence happening in the black community, the wealth gap that exists between blacks and other races, or the lagging test scores we observe amongst the youth in the black community. They don’t care about equity or equality, they care about your vote. Joe Biden, the same man promising you equity, just a few short decades ago publicly said he didn’t want his kids going to school with black kids. He said he didn’t want his kids growing up in a “racial jungle.” If these people truly cared about “equity,” they would look into the root causes of the problems in the black community such as the large numbers of kids being born out of marriage, lack of consequence for violent crime, and lack of choice of education. It’s time to wake up and realize that the only reason that the victim marathon is as strong as it is in our society, is the incentive structure of power and grift that exists within.
As we pause today to take time to honor Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his great courage, let us take a moment to ask God for an outpouring of his spirit upon our lives, our homes, and our nation. It is important that we take time to celebrate the courage and truly study the generations that preceded us. We will learn that behind the great civil rights movement and the call for equality was a spirit of God. There is a reason why many of the great people who helped spearhead that movement had reverend in front of their names. Too many of our so-called leaders in America and society as a whole have removed God from daily life, and in doing so, we find that we are losing our purpose as a nation and our sense of self as a people. Because of this, Christians of our generation have a moral obligation to stand for truth, justice, and equality and realize that we are one nation under God and not one nation under government just as Dr. Martin Luther King did before us. Happy MLK Day!
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One might think that, if the Democrats had never started bring up the race card, from immediately after the civil rights movement was beginning to succeed, that we might not have almost any of the problems we still face, to this day. Every time we hear a story about race, it is always taken in a vain of creating more division, and never about getting over what should have ended a long time ago.
So much pain could have been avoided if the words from MLK’s speech was taken to heart, and not made into another anthem of sorts, by the left, by continually being made into the constant cries about “Racism!”
Great article.