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Time To Make A Change?
They say that “change takes time.” I think that whoever “they” are, are wrong. Like in 1776, we have no more time. We cannot wait for the slowly moving processes of the Government to show some heart by doing the right thing, standing for the right thing. The song used to say, “A change is gon’ come.”
But the change that we want and need will not simply come. We must make it happen.
We cannot wait for those young people or the old ones to see that the country is larger than their concern about narrow issues and understand that when the supposed moral leader of the world has no morals, we cannot cast symbolic votes or make trite excuses for abuses. We must gather, but we must vote. We must vote in our Community, or regional elections, or State elections and National elections. We must push for the removal of those people who are more concerned with both sectarian and racial control and domination. But we must also vote in spite of our frustration with promises unkept. Promises unkept are frustrating, but eliminating the promises is diabolical, demonic or evil.
The prophet Elijah as recorded in the Bible stood against a king named Ahab and told him that it was because of him (Ahab) that the nation was in trouble and its people suffering. Every prophet and every prophet/pastor must be willing to stand up and speak God’s truth that we must be concerned with the condition and survival of the poor, marginalized, the widows, elders and unparented youth. Now is the time to vote, to assemble, to protest and to boycott. We must be in the street, on the airwaves, on the internet—wherever and on whatever means are available to express what is right, and stand to reinstitute the values and re-initiate principles—striving towards a freedom promised by our Constitution no matter how far away it seems to be from us.
We don’t have time to wait. We have no leisure to be concerned only with what we need as a singular generation or as individuals. We will survive or fall as a collective. We are close to entering a moment once described by Pres. Lincoln. “Now we are engaged on a great battlefield, to determine whether this Nation or any nation can so endure.”
I hope that you are awake or “woke” now, and can see the possibility of you, or your family member, or your neighbor’s blood may soon be running at your feet.
We have no more time to wait. God wrote on a wall to one arrogant leader, mene mene tekel uparsin (a transliteration) meaning, “You-have been weighed in the balances and been found lacking.”
We are in an age lacking love, mercy, morality, respect, patience, kindness. Our society, you and me and people like us who live together must stand to speak, to vote, to engage. We must encourage this country with all of its imperfections to “Let Justice roll like a mighty river. “ If we don’t do this now, then we will be caught up in the conflagration that awaits all those who ignore the call to love, the call to salvation.
The Supreme Court Is Not So Supreme
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Our Supreme Court has been concerned with securing the rights and freedoms of one section of our population. In essence anything that makes non white males or women capable of participating in the Country and enjoying its freedoms and liberties, must be obliterated. For the privileged (rich white males) to allow others this freedom—apparently in their minds—inherently denies white males the right to enjoy and control who enjoys these freedoms and the opportunities that that being a United States citizen brings.
​ This is racist. sexist and wrong.
What can you add to our conversation?
Of The People, For the People, By the People
The United States under this administration has become a nation “FOR THE PURSE, OF THE PURSE, BY THE PURSE.”
The U.S. has become a democratic predator. It operates under the administration of a quasi-dictatorship whose primary concern is rich white persons.
Every black and brown person, not matter the economic status, should be concerned about their freedom. This freedom is now both tenuous and temporary. It is subject to the arbitrary accusation—or whim—of an administration that renames and classifies those who are worthy or unworthy of living and participation in any level of society.
Women (white women) too will be at risk as the administration fulfills its vision of this revived pre-Civil War society. Their status will again be reduced to subjects of their husbands or objects of their bosses, if indeed they are allowed work outside of the home.
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What are your thoughts?
Where To turn
If the lawmakers and the law breakers in a society are one and the same where is Justice? Where is accountability? What is the standard for right or righteousness? Who assures us of fairness and a “no respecter of persons” society?
Psalm 11:3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
Is The Church A Hospital or A Place of Change
Hospital Religion is a place where we go for spiritual and emotional support and not for emotional and spiritual healing. However, I believe that we need confidence in a hospital where we can be spiritually and emotionally healed, delivered and set free from sin.
What we are building seems to be asylums or hospice centers not hospitals. Hospice centers or asylums are facilities for the terminal--the hopeless, those who have no reason to believe that they will be better. They just need support. A real spiritual hospital is a place where you can be spiritually and emotionally helped and healed: indeed healed from the devastating personal, social and spiritual impact of sin.
A Church--a.k.a.--"the body of Christ," is a hospital where people are healed from the effects of and taught how to avoid sin and its impact. It is not a hospice center. We have, we represent a Deliverer. At the end of chapter one of the Gospel of Matthew we read that "His name shall be called Jesus for he shall save his people from their sins." Matt. 1:25)
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