06/19/2026
America, specifically black America, recognizes today as the day that the slaves were freed after the Civil War. The Bible was misused during the time period of slavery here in our country. Slave "owners" used a watered down, rewritten, and redacted version of the true Word of God to validate what they were doing.
God's word is clear, we are to be slaves only to Christ and not in the way the world thinks. In that we are His creation, His flock, His church, we are the ecclesia. Jesus said, "Come to me all you who are burdened and weary." Instructed us to lay down our burdens and to pick up our cross, to bear His yoke for it is light and easy. To be servants of all. To love our neighbors, ALL our neighbors.
As a society we post our "get ready with me(s)" and our aesthetic morning routines complete with coffee cups, some of us have our Bibles and notebooks with highlighters and pens. Curated to show a perfect shot. We don't see the mess behind the carefully thought-out message.
So, I call on all believers that instead of our "OOTD" shots let's show and be a reflection of Christ by standing up daily and putting on the Full Armor of God so that we can intercede for one another, for the stranger, for the lost, which sometimes includes us.
Amen? Amen.
