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This morning I was watching some of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s speeches. One video was an interview in which he talked about being prepared for his house being bombed. He said he had had a religious experience and had given his life over to the struggle. He said that since that religious experience he was able to move forward knowing he had a "cosmic companion." It seems that for many called to do something great, there is a moment when the call becomes greater than the fear. This video seems to describe that moment for MLK. Of all the speeches I watched today, this was my favorite: A Knock at Midnight |
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Yeah, it wasn't too long after that that he was murdered. MLK had that calling on him though. You can tell it in his writings and in his speech's. It is the same calling that many others have had on their life when it comes to something great....amazing stuff.
"You gotta call on that something and that person that your daddy used to tell you about, that power that can make a way out of no way. I discovered then that religion had to become real to me and I had to know God for myself." Martin Luther King Jr.
I think that my favorite part about this man, was that he (just like you said Crissy), knew that the call was greater than the fear. And that the hope and the faith that he had in God, that Jesus would never leave his side, that his convictions were the right ones, that his cause was the right one, allowed him to move forward towards the goal. He knew that the cause was worth dying for, and although he didn't walk to his death like Christ, he never stopped standing up for what he believed was right, no matter the risk or the injustice, and his life was a testament to that. In a time when we are at war for an injustice done to us, I think we as Christians have a lot to learn from Dr. King in the way he responded to those who persecuted him.
Matt 5:44-45, "But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous."