If we are wrong, justice is a lie

This post is inspired and dedicated first of all to my loving King & Savior Jesus Christ, and secondly to an amazing servant of my Savior, Martin Luther King, Jr.

"You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression...If we are wrong, the Supreme Court of this nation is wrong. If we are wrong, the Constitution of the United States is wrong. And if we are wrong, God Almighty is wrong. If we are wrong, Jesus of Nazareth was merely a Utopian dreamer that never came down to Earth. If we are wrong, justice is a lie, love has no meaning. And we are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream. " -MLK, Jr 1955

My parents were still wearing diapers when these words were spoken, but they changed my life forever. I grew up in a nation that honors justice & boldly defends the belief that all people are created with equal, unalienable rights. This is a wonderful blessing I grew up taking for granted - I thank all the men & women, like MLK Jr, whose God-given dreams have shaped my reality. I know I'm weird, but pray I, and we, like Dr. King live so boldly for Christ that if we are wrong about Jesus we would lose everything, because we are publicly and privately declaring and living that Jesus is our everything. I also cry out to Jesus constantly for this justice, this freedom, this truth to reign down world-wide.

I still can't believe some of the things I saw and heard in Kenya: a doctor refusing to treat a sick orphan "because he is an orphan and that (the medication) requires alot of paperwork for me," men who rape girls b.c their entire childhood was spent in a one room shack with their mother who prostituted herself to feed them, children addicted to drugs

because that is the way they kill their hunger pains, over 20 men dying a day in a bar I walked by because they have no hope and to save money the bar owner mixes gasoline in the beer, a child being told by his teacher that he was evil and "your mother was right to abandon you," countless orphans who have lost their parents to AIDS, people dying of hunger and thirst and never hearing the name of Jesus Christ, and it goes on and on...

And while I am back here in the US, there are millions still living in such injustice.

I don't want to push this aside, but this truth can be paralyzing. If you allow it to sink in, be warned. It has caused me to cry as I watch the amount of life-giving water that goes down my shower drain in the morning or after I go to a movie paying the same price for 3 hours of entertainment that it costs to feed 2 hungry street children for two weeks. I am wasteful, I am limited, I am sinful. Even if I were perfect, I can't save them all. And the greater injustice is not those who die from physical hunger but spiritual hunger, and to me the worst injustice of all is those who die from both. How can you even get out of bed in the morning if you allow the flood and gravity of these injustices to fill your mind? My only hope & our only answer is JESUS. He is the Savior! He Himself IS JUSTICE. In the first words Jesus used to publicly declare & reveal Himself as Messiah, as Savior of the World we can find humanity's refuge:

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor." - Luke 4:18-19

There is more hope He declares over us:

"When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the LORD will answer them; I the God of Israel will not forsake them. I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys...that they may see and know, may consider and understand together, that the hand of the LORD has done this, the Holy One of Israel has created it." - Isaiah 41:17-20

"Yet the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore He will rise up to show you compassion. For the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for Him!" - Isaiah 30:18

Praise Jesus!!! I can't help but literally jump and sing as He allows me to grasp a small portion of how powerful, how wonderful, how beautiful, how eternally life saving these words really are! Dance & sing with me praises to our King. There is so much more depth and life in these words, thoughts that are running through my head so fast I can't even keep up, and I certainly can't express them intelligently yet. Today I want to meditate on the fact that HE IS JUSTICE, that He uses His people like MLK Jr to shape nations, and seek what He is calling me to do about the injustices in the world. Will you join me today in a desperate and joyful anthem with our King of Kings, "Let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream" - Amos 5:24