What’s Inside Your Heart Will Definitely Show Up

What’s “Inside” your heart will most definitely show up! I find it to be quite interesting that a lot of the folks that are professing to be Christians are also great supporters of President Trump. WOW! How can that be? Jesus did not suggest but He “Commanded” us to “Love” one another and then the world would know that we are His disciples. John 13:34-35: “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” Where is the “Love?” My country tis of thee, sweet land of not much “Liberty,” of thee I write and ask “why do you despise us so? Truthfully, you should love us for “All” that our forefathers did for this country. This country would not have become the strong country that it is without the hard work of our forefathers. This country was built on the backs of our forefathers, who your forefathers treated as animals. WOW! I was going to say “how soon have you forgotten, but not so, because that is still the way that so many of you still look upon us as being. Wow!

Let me share with you the words of Michael Eric Dyson from his book “Tears We Cannot Stop!” “America is in trouble, and a lot of that trouble- perhaps most of it- has to do with race. Everywhere we turn, there is discord and division, death and destruction. When we survey the land, we see a country full of suffering that we cannot fully understand, and a history that we can no longer deny. Slavery casts a long shadow across our lives. The spoils we reaped from forcing people to work without wages and treating them with grievous inhumanity continue to haunt us in a racial gulf that seems impossible to overcome. Black and white people don’t merely have different experiences; we seem to occupy different universes, with world views that are fatally opposed to one another. The merchants of racial despair easily peddle their wares in a marketplace riddled by white panic and fear.

Black despair piles up with each body that gets snuffed on video and streamed on social media.” WOW! This book was published in 2017 and here we are three years later (2020) and on social media this madness is still being seen. Wow! But we must be grateful to social media, for even though our hearts and minds cannot bare what we are seeing, at least it can no longer be hidden.

Let me also share with you this, which was written by our wonderful Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his book “Why We Can’t Wait!” In chapter 5, “Letter from Birmingham Jail” which was written to his fellow clergymen: “My Dear Fellow Clergymen: While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities ‘unwise and untimely.’ Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would have little time for anything other than such correspondence in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work. But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I want to try to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms.

“This plea that I am making is to ‘All’ of the professing clergymen throughout this United States of America, “Rise up and cry loud against this madness that is destroying ‘Our’ country, which is the country which was built upon our forefather’s backs. Your ‘Silence’ towards this mistreatment that is being waged against people of color throughout this land is a sad indictment upon you. In deep disappointment I have wept over the laxity of the church. But be assured that my tears have been tears of love. There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. Before closing I feel impelled to mention one other point in your statement that has troubled me profoundly. You warmly commended the police force for keeping ‘order’ and ‘preventing violence.’ I doubt that you would so quickly commend policemen if you were to observe their ugly and inhumane treatment of Negroes here in the city jail; if you were to watch them push and curse old Negro women and young Negro girls; if you were to see them slap and kick old Negro men and young boys; if you were to observe them, as they did on two occasions, refuse to give us food because we wanted to sing our grace together. I cannot join you in your praise of the Birmingham police department.” Wow!

Here we are now in the year of 2020, which is 57 years later. WOW! Not much has changed as it pertains to the way that many of our people are treated by police departments throughout this country and truthfully I have not heard as much as should have been heard from the church. I know that Dr. King’s heart would be in so much pain if he was still on this earth. What I am saying to you is most definitely coming forth from a heart of love. Men of God you “Must” begin to cry loud and spare not as it pertains to “Police Brutality” that is being waged throughout this country as it pertains to people of color and also against some of our white sisters and brethren.

Our Heavenly Father is your protection, but to that I guess that you will say “Dr. King was killed for speaking out.” As you know none of us will leave here until our Heavenly Father says that it is time for us to leave. It is time for a “Cry Loud And Spare Not” voice to be coming forth from the church. If Dr. King was still alive what do you think that he would be doing? Give some real “Serious” thought to that! Yes! Yes! Yes!

This is “Lillie’s Point Of View” and I’m just having my say! By the way, I was in the hospital a couple of days ago due to the stress of “ALL” of this madness that is going on but now I’m back. Praise God From whence “ALL” of our blessings flow! YES! YES! YES!