Today’s Thought “Of the United States…” G. Ward Hebrews 12:2-3 Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider Him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. Most generations throughout the entirety of the world experienced a liberator for their district. That one was generally without respector of ethnicity or economic bracket, but sought to impose hope throughout their village. Oppositional forces, particularly those with superiority complexes were infuriated as any deemed uncivilized (in their wrongful estimation), would never achieve the kind of civility matching theirs. The Liberator however persisted, encouraging the least to the greatest of freedom’s opportunity despite categorical positioning (from some) un-sanctioned from Heaven and while we certainly extend honor to an exemplary liberator who embodied this, even with comparability to an Apostle named Peter (who decided upon his own martyrdom that his crucifixion shouldn’t be as ordinary, that is hung on the tree, but rather to be positioned upside down, so as to be equated with his Savior’s suffering). We choose this day to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as a modern day equivalency of a great liberator aforementioned. We however understand that both Peter and Martin lived vicariously through the Perfect example of their truest Liberator – Jesus and can be found with HIM…