Today marks the birthday of one of God’s greatest vessels for liberty in our nation. Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born for and with, an undeniable purpose: Liberty.
A man after my own heart. I am a spiritual libertarian. Not a socio-political one. As a Christian, I believe we have free will and are bound to the covenant of God’s perfect freedom in Christ, if we so choose. Part of freedom is having a choice. I also believe part of the reason God first chose us is because as HIS creation, to reject us would be to reject himself and He’s not a self hating God. But we are.
We live in the autonomous mindset that somehow we can all get along if we just mind our own business and live as little gods, unto ourselves. But creation wasn’t set up to be that way. And satan has certainly made it his business to ensure we erect our thrones above all knowledge of actual liberty, which is found in the person and doctrine of Jesus the Christ, the true harbinger and ultimately, the fulfillment of, liberty.
In my opinion, Dr. King, much like King David, was a man after God’s own heart. He was a peace maker not a peace keeper. What’s the difference? A peace keeper will do anything to keep the peace. This is denying all evidence, excusing the inexcusable, head/sand, butt/air = the apathetic… i.e. the liberal mindset of our nation.
This beguiling spirit attempts to exalt itself above the throne of Truth by demanding we comply with all manner of socio-political and spiritual doctrine. But not all socio-political and spiritual doctrine is rooted in true liberty. There is one truth who will make you free and He’s anything but apathetic.
A peace maker is someone who charges head long onto the battlefield armed with one purpose; uncover common ground between two opposing people, ideals or beliefs with an end result being that of unity around one doctrine; unifying peace.
What is it about America that makes us so appealing to the rest of the world? Why do people clamor and kill to make their way to this land of opportunity? I dare say, freedom. Liberty is the banner that hangs over this nation. And many men and women have fought and died to preserve that now ideologically tattered banner. Dr. King was one of them.
Did his dream become reality? Can his faith now be counted in the archives of our faith’s forefathers? Is TODAY the evidence of that which he hoped for, but had not yet seen? Did he fulfill his purpose in spite of his life being silenced by the enemy of liberty? Let’s take a look.
The King Dream:
Black and white children to play together. Check.
Obvious segregation, man made signage indicating who could drink, eat, stand, sit, according to color, would be dismantled. Check.
Blacks would have the right to vote. Check.
The South would rise up out of ashes of hatred, violence and fear regarding black brothers and sisters. Check.
That we would be able to hew out a stone of hope from the mountain of despair. Half checked.
Blacks would stop wallowing in the valley of despair. Unchecked.
One day this nation would rise up, live out its true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self- evident, that all men are created equal”. Unchecked.
As you can see, contrary to what some of Dr. King’s self-grandizing disciples would have you believe, his dream has in fact, become a partial reality and in a relatively, short period of time.
The two unchecked items go hand in hand.
As a peace maker, it is not my intention to fan the flames of accusation, rather make clear the spiritual root and societal origin of the truth in my unchecked statements.
I’m exercising my liberty to expose those who align with oppression and profit from the unchecked boxes of the King Dream.
Those self-professed/appointed men of God (ahem) who keep alive and contribute to, the black cultures’ reality of factual statistics; unprecedented murder rates, drug addiction, all manner of crime, self murder (abortion) violence and caustic in- fighting & poverty, with no accountability and solution, no hope, other than the historical accusation that it must be someone else’s fault. The spirit of oppression is an equal opportunist.
Wallowing. This is an unchecked component of King’s dream and it is not indicative of liberty. My former pastor would say that self-pity is the super glue of hell. And I say, Amen. This goes for whites too by the way, but we aren’t living with the same man- made burden of proof to exist freely, as our black brothers and sisters. It’s true and you know it.
And because there are agents of oppression in the earth, the other unchecked box, listed below, keeps this one in place. Until a man sees himself as God sees him, which is purchased & redeemed for liberty, he will forever wallow in the annals of man’s rhetoric and remain a slave to field narratives of the haves and have nots.
Until it is self-evident by virtue of a revelation from the true spiritual libertarian, man will be bound by party, class, and imaginative man-made doctrine. Some of our foundational ‘man- made doctrines’ were simply agreements with an acceptable truth that began in alignment with Judaeo-Christian principles, where our legitimate liberty is birthed.
Until man returns to the most compelling part of King’s Dream birthed from the Lord’s; to live with every valley brought high and every high thing, low. The rough places made plain, the crooked places made straight and the glory of the Lord revealed, we will ALL remain subjects of the past. That place in time when faith was the evidence of the things hoped for that our eyes now see. But can we? Can we see how far we’ve come? Can we see how faithful God has been when man agrees with HIS principles?
There are many voices in the earth. Not all speaking liberating truth. Facts, feelings and truth are a many times mutually exclusive. I would say, while America has come a long way in this thing called culture war birthed in differences, we have a lot to reconcile for a generation that is turning in on itself. A generation legislatively afforded all the things King dreamt of, yet lured back to the hopelessness of the past. We seem to be unable to realize the shackles have been removed. I dare say, the sins of our past and the inability to forgive them, have become the masters of our today.
Turn the channel on those who seek to devour you with all manner of poverty rhetoric and self-gain. They are the molesters of your freedom. Take off your shirts of self-flagellation, guilt, anger, bitterness (the other unchecked box of King’s dream), and mindset of socio-monetary reparation.
Let’s keep first things first. Praise him. Lift up your voices in thanks to the God who brought us out of times past. Be the American who continues paving a path of equality for all by first accepting God’s truth, that you matter, we all matter, and no manner of man could prove otherwise. Seek peace by first, forgiving the past. Seek justice by first, employing the counsel of the Judge of the poor and afflicted.
Long live the King legacy and may we build upon the foundation of one man’s dream first realized in the heart and mind of the GOD of freedom and justice, for all.
xo,
Monica
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