I don’t know about all the peripheral fragments of truth that can be seen in all the new age stuff---or the stars lining up kind of thing but suddenly yesterday I sensed there was a breakthrough in the karios time of God. As if something lined-up ----something slipped into gear----there was a clear sound of a trumpet proclaiming the entrance to higher levels of freedom, strength, truth and revelation. Something separated—it was ripped away from the darkness and raised to new heights.
Having a black man and a woman positioned as they are at the juncture of our national history is a huge step toward the culmination of God’s restoration. It is no less than when man stepped onto the moon saying—one small step for man…one giant step for mankind. Or when Roger Bannister broke the 4 minute mile, thereby opening the way for multitudes of others to follow. Going beyond the known always opens the frontiers for people and nations to follow. Has this not always been the destiny of this great nation! It holds within it the simple truth that just as all died because of one man—all live because of one man. This is the law of life that was empowered by another juncture of history—the Cross of Jesus Christ. He became the cost of all men being reconciled to the Creator who moves through history and as the supreme artist unveils a plan of cosmic proportion.
Do you sense it---do you feel it----the reconciling, the restoring of all things in Christ ---God does not need man’s agreement or persuasion for His own plan and purpose to be achieved. Man needs God’s grace to step into the conscious awareness of who He is and onto the highway of restoration of all things.
This moment is not about who—or what—but about the WHY?
The WHY is God’s Divine purpose—as it continues to be unwrapped. The world is a stage and we as finite man are but the players. Slowly as we travel through the ages the producer leads the players from act to act, unfolding, line upon line, precept upon precept more than we can ask or think—a universe in unity, a new world created in and for peace—peace that pays the price with blood, sweat, tears and yes life itself.
We cannot control it, change it, or captivate it. We can only live it and in the living it captivates us—tied together by frail humanity it controls us and change comes only as He works through our weakness—together.
The unspoken but clearly communicated message of two lives—a black man and a white woman—speak volumes of the fundamental development and forward thrust of a nation that has been birthed as a sign. A sign of the struggle that beyond all that can be seen there is the unseen hand of God—There is the Sovereign Creator—The power of whom is Love. Love that changes the hearts of men, heals the broken places of his soul—and causes the transformation of a nation and the world.
You could argue that these things have happened before—and they have… to a measure—man has tried and tried again. Man has lived, fought and died attempting to move this nation from season to season, to reach unknown goals and outer limits and because of those that have gone before we arrive in today. We are intrinsically joined to those that went before and having not been this way before we stagger at the climb even as the excitement fills our hearts with living hope.
At the heart of this nation is a dream…freedom, for every man, woman and child. Regardless of race, creed, color, economic, social, educational or political status, none of these things diminish the value nor damage the destiny of individuals made in the image and likeness of Almighty God.
To look into the face of this nation is to see the face of freedom. A freedom that grows from the heart to the hand—and she gives—and because she gives, she grows. To look into the face of this nation is to accept there is a force greater than man’s ability to control—and she yields to the higher power and—It shall be,…
“that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
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