Bat Signal
The night that Barack Obama gave
his acceptance speech to accept the Presidency, I must admit only now, that I
glanced to the sky to look for the Bat
Signal intended for the people of color to mount up and be ready. Be ready for what? Heck, I don’t know but I was just ready to be
saved and delivered. And although I know
that he is not God, nor ever will be our Savior; I held out a smidgen of hope
that him becoming President might somehow overnight,
change the deportment of how people of color are treated. How about that… I found the Audacity for Hope.
Sort how the Israelites thought
amongst themselves that when Jesus announced himself through many infallible
proofs that he was the Christ; they were up under the same impression that
there would be an immediate deliverance – Not! Well… not so much a not, rather it is a not right now.
It’s been a millennial or two in
order for what Christ has done and for who he is to permeate the tapestry of this
world. The vaccination took place when he went to the Cross and the
immunization of a world is still in the process. Change takes time.
Speaking of time… Anytime past
now is time spent waiting; and we can hardly wait for that one minute to tick by; and the tock seems like a lifetime.
Give God the time he needs to do
what he promised. There isn't going to be a signal signifying
when the changing of the guards takes place; just know that it’s coming.
Abe Lincoln signed the
Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 – 153 years ago… It has taken time for the generations that knew only
Slavery and their descendants, and their inherited racism to die off and the
rhetoric to die-down. The same as the
Children of Israel had to die off in the Wilderness because of their refusal to
believe, in spite of that which was shown in glorious form and fashion by God.
Obama became President because
the thinking of the people had to first be changed – the Nature. The people of
God will receive the blessing(s) of God when our nature changes. Our nature
must become that we believe. That is the signal that God is waiting to see
from us.
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