PUNISHMENT

God is a loving and compassionate God.  He sent the Holy Spirit to guide us and enable us with the power to feel the love within ourselves as well as the love that surrounds us.  We experience His Love and Power in different ways, but when we are in our deepest and darkest days or hours, we may not see it or believe that It is near, but it is.  Because of the darkness we may be blind to how the Holy Spirit is manifesting Itself in our lives, or maybe we just refuse to see it.

If we take the Holy Spirit’s Love and apply it to our lives daily, seconds by seconds, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day, month by month, year by year…we will see a change in our lives.

FOLLOW ME AND I WILL SET YOU FREE.

In the United States of America, most Americans are familiar with Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior. Even if you have never heard his speech or lived during the fifties or sixties, his voice is familiar and most people recognize his cry for peace and equality. The iconic words of Dr. King that are most recognized is his spiritual outcry for equality and peace are, “Free at last, free at last, my Lord, I am free at last.”

Dr. King has always been a Christian and based on his remarkable quotes he was a Trinity Christian follower. (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/martin_luther_king_jr.html .

He spoke through the scriptures as his motivation to free all people, and to fight against racism, discrimination and oppression. Jesus, the Son of God, was his motivator and inspiration in his journey to fight for freedom, as many black leaders before him have done since the time of slavery.

Dr. King left a legacy that most likely made his heavenly father proud, when he planted the seeds of faith and love on Earth. He shared the true words of God and brought hope to all of God’s people. Though he did no harm to anyone, his enemies, who were blinded by fear and hatred, assassinated him.

When I was a youth I believed that Christianity was a White man’s religion. Why not?  As was portrayed in the movies and churches, it was a White man who crucified a White man named Jesus. I could not understand why Black people wanted to be Christians, where their Jesus is White, rather than some other religion. Why should not I be the other?

Christianity is not a White man’s religion. It is not a religion. It is a faith in the Trinity.  To be a Christian means that you are a follower of Christ. It is following the teaching of one perfect man, Jesus, Son of Man.

 

Dr. King wasn’t just talking about the physical freedom of citizens of this country but the spiritual freedom of loving all people whether they are rich, poor, black, white, Jewish, Muslim, French, British, And Kenyan, etc.

Even if you are not a Christian, you can still follow Jesus’ teachings to be free. It can make a difference in your life if you choose to practice the teachings of the Bible. We are not perfect, so we will fail. But we learn from our failures and thus are able to relate to others' struggles. If the perfect man can accept our failures as imperfect as we are, then we should be willing to accept others failures as imperfect as they might be.

If history is any indicator, we will always be punished by man for being a Christian.  We are not supposed side with evil by being discriminatory, racist, political hate-baiting, causing pain to others, being neglectful parents, etc…these are sins that will be forgiven if we ask of the Holy Father, God for forgiveness.  It is His promise to us.  If we are led by the LIGHT, then our punishment will diminish and we will become ONE under ONE FAITH and ONE LOVE. History has been known to repeat itself and Christians –By-Name, will lose favor if they do not change.