Justice and mercy have not forsaken us,
nor have we been abandoned to the infidel.
Martin Luther King Jr.: it is ironic, is it not, that the day designated to celebrate the history and emerging triumph of civil rights was instead the installation of a forced dedicated to the destruction of those rights and the people who claim them. It is indeed a dark time, no doubt about it.
But, come my friends, lift up your hearts, we have been through dark times before. And then as now the light is just beyond the horizon, just over the hill, and behind the clouds that obscure the sun. We have not been abandoned, and the dark will not swallow us whole.
Remember, my friends, that was not so when I was cut down, that it is not so now, and that what appears to be a closing of the door is in fact a temporary dimming of the universal light only to allow it to shine even more brightly when it illumines the darkened space we enter now.
Justice and mercy have not forsaken us, nor have we been abandoned to the infidel. Though many calling on the name of Jesus Christ would crucify him again if they had the chance, even they can be redeemed by light, and it is light that we now must send their way.
Nothing, nothing in this world or out of it, can extinguish this light, the light that shines in all those who suffer for the cause of freedom and joy. It is this light that we must share, that we must rain upon the world, including, even most especially, those whose blindness leaves them tethered in darkness.
His cause is not tied to any one church, any one religion, or any one prophet. His cause is a cause of liberty and righteousness for all, kindness and compassion even unto the least of us, even when their poverty is hidden by the trappings of power.
Do not mistake the recent past for some panacea. There was much to attend to bring your world into alignment with the Kingdom of God even before the ascent of a new reign of darkness. We now continue the fight carried on in the past by unarmed warriors of compassion to bring the light that each human being deserves.
Now we have no excuse. We cannot turn away from what is right before our eyes and tell ourselves that what we have is good enough, that it is better than what we had before. And most of all, we cannot depend upon someone else to carry the flag. No, those coming in to rule this country will show us plainly where we are and where we have been going for many years.
Many thought when I was murdered, then Bobby and those would expose his killer, that the light of day would never again come to this country. They were wrong then, and they are wrong now. Keep your head up, keep your eyes forward, for you have much to accomplish. The Kingdom of God will not fail.
Let us, in honor of this inauguration day, proclaim the dawning of that Kingdom, the dawning of the Kingdom of love and the Kingdom of compassion, for this is the Kingdom of God.
And then let us, in the name of the God who created that Kingdom, make it our own.
January 19, 2025
Free Image: Pixabay, Lutherrose, the seal of Martin Luther, the namesake of Martin Luther King Jr. In an 8 July 1530 letter to Lazarus Spengler, Martin Luther interprets his seal as follows:
Grace and peace from the Lord. As you desire to know whether my painted seal, which you sent to me, has hit the mark, I shall answer most amiably and tell you my original thoughts and reason about why my seal is a symbol of my theology. The first should be a black cross in a heart, which retains its natural color, so that I myself would be reminded that faith in the Crucified saves us. "For one who believes from the heart will be justified" (Romans 10:10). Although it is indeed a black cross, which mortifies and which should also cause pain, it leaves the heart in its natural colour. It does not corrupt nature, that is, it does not kill but keeps alive. "The just shall live by faith" (Romans 1:17) but by faith in the crucified. Such a heart should stand in the middle of a white rose, to show that faith gives joy, comfort, and peace. In other words, it places the believer into a white, joyous rose, for this faith does not give peace and joy like the world gives (John 14:27). That is why the rose should be white and not red, for white is the color of the spirits and the angels (cf. Matthew 28:3; John 20:12). Such a rose should stand in a sky-blue field, symbolising that such joy in spirit and faith is a beginning of the heavenly future joy, which begins already, but is grasped in hope, not yet revealed. And around this field is a golden ring, symbolising that such blessedness in Heaven lasts forever and has no end. Such blessedness is exquisite, beyond all joy and goods, just as gold is the most valuable, most precious and best metal...." Wikipedia.
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Well, candidly, this "light" appears severely dimmed on planet Earth right about now.