Stricken by politicians
Who can't see what's behind them.
Think back to every:
Political stupor perceived as a rock star tour,
Each political caller disrupting dinner hour, and
Each candidate promising a better tomorrow.
See; every politician has two faces;
The face that people see and the face that can’t face faces.
Pharaoh was a politician.
And Pharaoh was scared.
In his gut was fear, so out of his mouth came “slavery.”
His weakness of insecurity fed the power of genocide.
They say that out of a person’s mouth flows the condition of their heart.
Pharaoh felt helpless so he had the helpless killed.
Fast-forward to Moses, sailing down the river in his own infant-sized Ark in the form of a basket.
His small boat docks in the home of Pharaoh.
Here it becomes obvious that history repeats itself because following Joseph, a Hebrew is in Pharaoh’s house again!
And Moses’ rise to power is just more evidence that God’s people cannot be kept down, because we have a Father who doesn’t allow it.
In this family we breed leaders.
I’m talking about standing-in-front-of-a-classroom-leading-children-into-a-better-tomorrow leaders.
And restoring-and-preserving-the-land-that-God-left-in-our-hands leaders.
Being-a-shoulder-when-someone-needs-us leaders
And offering-a-prayer-for-those-who-don’t-pray-for-themselves leaders.
From the Oval Office to a west coast hospice.
From the preacher feature on CNN to the child serving in a soup kitchen.
This family breeds leaders.
So I ask you;
Could you be somebody’s Moses?
Do you have what it takes to take the hand of a brother? A sister, father, mother, son, or daughter?
Keep in mind that had fear prevailed we would not know the name Moses today.
Had a number of women not acted out of compassion and courage the extermination of an entire people would have been forgotten by history.
Christ calls us to do one thing above all else; to love one another as God first loved us.
This is a story about fear of people who are different.
About people who look at others and see something that isn’t.
Fear of the encroachment of the so-called-outsider.
A lesson that shouldn’t be that difficult to decipher.
Because it’s happening. Now.
Through chilling with those whom social diseases were festering
Jesus teaches us to be that much more accepting.
But our churches tend to be cultural cocoons where we can escape the changes out neighborhoods, cities, and nations are experiencing.
So who will be Moses for the people out there?
Who will speak up when others simply don’t care?
This is a call to the future leaders of this tradition.
Future doctors, and teachers, and pediatricians,
Mothers, and fathers, and computer technicians,
Hasty environmentalists, and honest politicians.
This is a challenge to live a life worthy of the call you have received.
Because as a child of God, you were born to lead.
Emily Martin
Sept 28, 2011
Revised: Nov 29, 2011
