“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice”
-MLK
Romans 10:2–3
For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge…
Proverbs 14:12
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
I remember I called my mom around August around the time of the riots of the George Floyd psyops. I don’t remember the specifics, but I remember how I felt. I remember the tensions coming from people whom I grew up with were at an all time high. People I grew up with. I remember collapsing on the ground after that phone call and I remember sobbing. I remember that some are still living in these tensions. I do not disregard my own tensions, but I remember growing up, what it was like. Growing up with the neighborhood kids, and extending on to my entire life, I remember the way I felt hanging out with my homies.
This summer, when and if ‘they’ try it again, don’t let them divide you. That’s what ‘they’ want. And who is ‘they’? Let us stop playing games. You know who ‘they’ are. We are all brothers and sisters, even some of ‘they’ who simply haven’t come back around to who we all are as children. Remember that when showing restraint. Remember the people you grew up with. Remember the people you didn’t grow up with who taught you to be as children again. Remember the way you felt. And forget the fabricated anger of ‘they’.
God bless the good fruit.
Philippians 2:12
…work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
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LAWFULLY.
Joel 2:13
…rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful…
From “They’d follow you, and so would I”.. don’t conflate. No imagery could possibly form fit the concept perfectly the reality. Take what fits and discard the rest. In this context, you might make the assumption that a traitor became a hero, but is it possible you were the traitor in this context? Look within, the color the kettle. Notwithstanding, what do we ALL want? It’s one word.
FREEDOM.
Matthew 7:13–14
Enter ye in at the strait gate… because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Matthew 6:24
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
You may have assumed much up to and including this point. But where are we now? What is the truth of the matter? What are the true allegiances? Regardless, what are YOU, the READER’S, allegiances? As has been said, we do not have control over anything other than ourselves. If you do not see it clear as a bell, you have been lied to, and that lie had become you. It is not the author’s intention to replace truth, I also am a sinner. Do not conflate this either.
Romans 6:16
Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Joshua 24:15
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve… but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
There is a silver lining: today is the beginning of the rest of your life. Ensure you are marching forward in the correct direction, however slowly, rather than steadfast in the incorrect direction at full speed. Choose wisely.
Lamentations 3:22–23
It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed… They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
Ecclesiastes 9:11
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong…
May God bless the good fruit. Thine will be done.
Galatians 6:4–5
But let every man prove his own work… For every man shall bear his own burden.
LAWFULLY. Which direction should we go? In which direction have we been called? Thine will be done. Amen.
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Choose Wisely
Deuteronomy 30:19
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
This article feels, to me, incomplete. And yet, I don’t feel as though I could ever complete it. Like much of my work, for every question answered, ten more spring up. Maybe that is, itself, the point. Maybe there is no answer. Maybe the only answer is in the mystery. Maybe the only answer is in Yahushua. Maybe the truth, the answer, the light, will reveal itself around the next corner a bit more. Maybe the answer is far and away outside of anyone’s grasp, maybe that’s ok.
I love you. I love my Creator, the Almighty. Maybe that’s enough for today. I hope so. I know that I cannot do it alone. Almighty, forgive me. Almighty, give me strength. Almighty, make me your finest instrument. Almighty, thine will be done. Almighty, thank you. God bless. Amen.
