“What God Can Do With Junk Left on the Side of the Road”
The recent death this past week of George Floyd by Minnesota Police has been a common scene since our presence on this continent. The scene is not new. That is most unfortunate. Man struggles with race because he struggles with himself.
Racism and hatred cannot be acceptable in the face of better education, better health, advancement in technology and social dynamics. Yet, man still struggles with sin. This matter of race is a sin problem.
The second evil is the looting, vandalism, and violence as a reaction to the police killing of George Floyd. Two wrongs still “don’t” make a right. Interestingly, the night crowd that is protesting is not the church. The church does not conduct itself in that manner. One question that may be valid: Where is the church in a time like this?
Our position as a church should not be in the streets. Our position should be
1. In prayer
2. Pleading with our families to give their lives to Christ
3. Providing resources to fight this matter legally. But in order to provide resources their must be willingness on our part to change. We must be willing to overcome our own idiosyncrasies of control, power, and tunnel vision. Also, we must be willing to have true fellowship with those in the streets.
We can’t criticize too much of this night crowd. If you take a closer look, that crowd looks like how some of us used to look. They are angry, tied, some no God, frustrated with the system, but moreso frustrated with themselves. The only answer I know is Christ. There is hope in Christ. There is hope in Christ because if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things are passed away, behold all things become new. A friend of mine, Dr. Byron D. Orey sent me the following pictures. He found an old junked BBQ grill. Brother Orey restored it. See the before and after pictures.
This is what I was!
This is what the world sees in me!
This is what my aggressors see!
This is who I am now in Christ!
This is who Christ sees in me!
This is who my family, friends, and loved ones
1 John 3: 2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
“A Change is Coming because…”
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said:
“We are going to win our freedom because both the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of the Almighty God are embodied in our echoing demands. So however difficult it is during this period, however difficult it is to continue to live with the agony and the continued existence of racism, however difficult it is to live amidst the constant hurt, the constant insult and the constant disrespect, I can still sing we shall overcome. We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice.
We shall overcome because Carlisle is right. "No lie can live forever." We shall overcome because William Cullen Bryant is right. "Truth crushed to earth will rise again." We shall overcome because James Russell Lowell is right. "Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne." Yet that scaffold sways the future. We shall overcome because the Bible is right. "You shall reap what you sow."
A change in America is coming when the church starts praying (2 Chron 7:14), pleading
for the lost to come to Christ (Luke 14:17, 23), and when we are willing to provide our
resources to free people from the hurts and pains of life (Matt 13:22).
Christ came and died on the cross to set men’s minds and hearts free (Jn 8:36). Christ
prayed for us (Jn 17). Christ pleaded for us (Lk 19:10). And Christ provides His
resources to sustain us during the now (Phil 4:19).
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