Today’s Thought “As We Played…” G. Ward

“For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.” Romans 8:18

 

My brother and I were typical of most children in this television age, we adored it. One day in many, very monumental to contemplate was June 6, 1968. Five years prior President Kennedy was assassinated and April of 1968 (witnessing Dr. King’s murder) was indeed a very somber, dismal time for  Black boys in Detroit whereby tumultuous race riots (1964 – 1968) of rebellion towards police injustice precluded that the sun wouldn’t shine ever for our hamlet.

While we watched television, awaiting our scheduled program, two Ward boys in a land of justice for all couldn’t be sheltered from a visual in another assassin’s bullet killing another agent of change, Robert Francis Kennedy, Presidential candidate in the 1968 primary. We must never forget that pride in a land flowing with milk and honey, never meant that complacency be the existential hope of man, but that Holy God, who enables the grey skies in one’s soul, more assume an ability to REST (eternally) in a land free of impropriety and pain; and no matter how strong or weak earthly benevolence may advocate for the socially disenfranchised, Heaven’s requirement continues to be implicit trust in the All-Wise Savior (cf. Matt.7:21-23).

Won’t You Enjoin Yourself on This Monday Towards This Precious Reality (cf. 2 Cor.6:1-3)?