Come Sit A
Spell… Homogenized Freedom has an Expiration
Date…
From Disenfranchised
to Franchisee…
It’s one
thing to adhere to instructions or stay put in place when you are being
restrained or forced to remain bound within certain structured parameters but
what do you do when you are faced with the challenge
of remaining still and no longer have boundaries set to restrain you?
Freedom can
be tricky of sorts because freedom un-checked can lead some to arrogance
and un-able to self-check, and
thusly lead to their self-destruction.
On one-hand,
one would ascribe to the idea that if a person was blessed to be released from
prison that the person would find freedom
more appealing than that of incarceration but if that were the case, why do we
have so many repeat offenders… Habitual
is the colorful word they called that adds additional time to your sentencing. The answer is a battle hard fought and even harder won in the mind. Incarceration if meant
to retrain the mind to think a
different way supposedly… But it
depends on the individual’s willingness to absorb the new way of thinking being
presented, as well as what is actually being presented – sustenance versus
garbage; even an animal recognizes the difference and will turn its nose up at
the latter.
Another
scenario… Freedom for blacks from
slavery came as nothing short of a miracle of God and to call it anything other
than that would be an insult to the grace
and mercy of what God bestowed
upon his children. If we can see the God
of Israel delivering his children from the hand of bondage, then surely we can
lay ahold claim to that same deliverance, even if it is by being grafted in… In
is in… even by the skin of teeth.
For all that blacks have endured, on another-hand;
one would prescribe to the notion that freedom
that came at such a high cost would be valued as priceless but it has been to most
of the black community a bag full of fool’s
gold and not anything of worth. But,
yet we are this country’s greatest commodity, has been and still is; and they know it but the sad part is that we
don’t; and if we are astutely cognizant and aren't doing anything to better our own cause, it’s not the man’s fault,
it is our own.
Why are we
the only people who hobble along on welfare crutches and Jesus told us to take up
our bed and walk; and to cast aside that which props us up in place, only to
have it kicked up from under us? We keep
offering up excuses as to why we didn't make it into the pool while it was
being stirred with the miracle of healing.
How much longer are we going to lay and wait for someone else to put us in, someone
will always get there ahead of us,
if we continue to wait for hand(s)outs.
There will always be a struggle to get ahead in this life, and others
who skip in line, but that shouldn't hinder our resolve and progress; especially when we have Jesus who inquires of
us “Do we want to be made well?”
Homogenization of our Freedom with other classes of
race has a date soon to expire and the thing that once was available to quench,
grow and strengthen has now gone bad and will make you sick if you partake of
it.
It doesn't end there either… God always addresses the Church,
his people to correct themselves first
because as the church goes, so does
the world. We are the light on a hill,
the beacon that guides sojourners safely on their trek of this life and to meet
Christ along the way, through our guidance of our Daily Walk being on display for both individuals and the world to
see alike.
Whom the Son
sets free is free indeed. Jesus is asking
us what we are going to do with the freedom
he presents to us. No one is keeping us
from getting all that God has for us, but can we “Sit a Spell” and wait on God even though we have the freedom to move about and do our own
thing? It is our God-given right to live out this life any
way that we will, but the blessing for those that trust in Christ is to submit
that will, your will to his, and walk
in expectation that every promise in his Word belongs to you (us). When are we going to stop being the disenfranchised
and become franchisees of the plans and work of God?
Do we want
what God has for us or not? Or do we
want hand-me-downs and government assistance and remain disabled and crippled? Medicare
is going bankrupt and so is the race card… We've had a black President, our
excuses have an expiration date and it’s due to expire soon. One more stress fracture and this system as
we know it will come crumbling down and the only one to reset that which is
broken and restore strength is God, because He
is our healer and our provider.
True Freedom
is to say to God, “You have the freedom
Father to do your will in my life”.
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