Rev. Martin Luther King

God bless Re. Martin Luther King. He was called, committed, consecrated and courageous. He was a man of God, a prophet, a deliverer, a martyr. He was first and foremost a man totally committed to Christ and totally surrendered to the will of God. God called Rev. King to deliver His people from bondage and Rev. King obeyed that call. Rev. King was more than an emancipator, more than a leader, more than an equal rights advocate. Rev. Martin Luther King was a man whose God was the Lord! He was a man who showed us that love for God and neighbor often requires radical and committed selfless action. While society loves to idolize him as a drum major for equal rights, our society conveniently ignores the fact, the truth, the glaring reality, that Rev. Martin Luther King was a Christian of the sort that men should imitate.
Instead we dishonor his name by proclaiming equal rights without the One from whom all people were endowed with these inalienable rights. Instead we desecrate his memory by calling sin and wickedness rights. We grieve the God he served by enshrining the murder of unborn children as a right. No, we have learned little from the Rev. Martin Luther King. What we have failed to learn is that only with God and only through God are we great. Only through faith, not as some ideology, or fanciful concept, but faith as it is expressed in true commitment to God and His laws by the power of His Spirit, only in this way can we rise to His vision. Only through the sort of faith he exemplified can we truly be the nation and enjoy the freedom and dream that he dreamed.