Greetings to all, on this blessed Sunday, let us continue to pray that God fills each of us with the spirit of love and unity. We need Him now more than ever. Let us unite and pray for hope, healing, and love throughout this world. Amen
Today, as we end the month of February, the month set aside to acknowledge black history, we're seeing so much more open judgment, prejudice, disruption, and division in the world today.
Martin Luther King Jr. said, "I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
I'm reminded of Jesus praying for the disciples and the believers to come. It is evident in His prayer that He knows and wants them then and us today to understand how important it is for us to have oneness to live and work together.
John 17:20-23 (GW)
20 "I'm not praying only for them. I'm also praying for those who will believe in me through their message.
21 I pray that all of these people continue to have unity in the way that you, Father, are in me, and I am in you. I pray that they may be united with us so that the world will believe that you have sent me.
22 I have given them the glory that you gave me. I did this so that they are united in the same way we are.
23 I am in them, and you are in me. So they are completely united. In this way the world knows that you have sent me and that you have loved them in the same way you have loved me.
God has always been determined to break down the barriers that stood between humanity, nations, and races. Not much has changed over the years since Martin Luther King Jr. spoke those words and when Jesus Prayed that prayer.
1 John 4:20-21 (HCSB)
20 If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For the person who does not love his brother he has seen cannot love the God he has not seen.
21 And we have this command from Him: The one who loves God must also love his brother.
Lesson: We still have those who think that they are more important or better than others. Our power comes and is demonstrated only when we understand that we are on the same team and that we are all working for the same cause, to lift up the name of Jesus.
We are all in this together!
Just as history will judge the evils and the sins of times gone by, the future will pass its judgment on this generation for all the things we did and how we let them happen.
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