I would like to share the following devotional from Our Daily Bread for January 15, 2007.
LET FREEDOM RING
by Marvin Williams
Read: Isaiah 58:1-10
Is this not the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness,...to let the oppressed go free? Isaiah 58:6 (NKJV)
In 1963, during a peaceful march on Washington, DC, Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his now famous "I Have a Dream" speach. He eloquently called for freedom to ring from every mountaintop across the nation. The cost to him personally and to those who joined his peaceful resistance movement was steep, but real change soon began. God used that speech to awaken the conscience of the US to fight for the freedom of the oppressed and downtrodden.
In the 8th century BC, amid personal and national injustice, the prophet Isaiah was used by God to awaken the conscience of His people. Their convenient spirituality had led them to violence and insensitivity toward their fellow humans. God's people were oppressing the poor and substituting religious practices for genuine righteous living (vv.1-5). God indicted them (v.1) and prescribed spiritual living that would be expressed through turning to God in genuine repentance and setting people free (vv.6-12).
Like Isaiah, we have been sent to let freedom ring. By the power of the Holy Spirit, we must proclaim that the captives can be released, that the downtrodden can be freed from their oppressors, and that the time of the Lord's favor has come.
I've got a river of life flowing out of me:
Makes the lame to walk and the blind to see,
Opens prison doors, sets the captives free;
I've got a river of life flowing out of me.---Casebolt
No righteousness, no freedom!
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Yea, Matin Luther King's legacy lives on. 90% of the black children born today are born to single mom's, Over half the population in most prisons are black males. Over 50% of the black males in NYC are unemployeed and this during a time of record low unemployement. Young black men and women look up to thugs and deginerates for the most part as well as the youth of all races has embraced the dress and morals of these heros. Just because it sounds good dosen't mean it is good. The black community has been fed a lie that they are victims and this lie has held them down since the movement began. Jesus came to give freedom from within. This wonderful movment and its kins men the sexual revelution and womens liberation have produced the fuit of death. The statistics are staggering. Enough.
People should read this.
David,
I apologize for missing your comment when you first made it. What are you doing to help?
Eternity,
Thanks for the comment! I appreciate it.
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