What Do You ‘See’?
Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint; but blessed is he who keeps the law. Proverbs 29:18
What do you ‘see’ in your future? What’s your ‘vision’? In 1863 Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, yet one hundred years later African-Americans were still victims of segregation. During a speech at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, Dr Martin Luther King Jr expressed his vision in these now famous words: ‘I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the State of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream … of that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”’ The night before Dr King was assassinated in Memphis, he told his audience he had ‘seen’ the Promised Land, and even though they may not get there at the same time, they would one day enter it. If you don’t have a vision for your life, ask God for one. And when He gives it to you, pour your life into it believing you’ll live to ‘see’ it fulfilled!
Prayer
Heavenly Father, give me that vision of my life that I can pour myself into. The vision YOU give me. In Jesus’ Name, Amen
AL signed the Emancipation Proclamation on 01/01/1863. He died 04/15/1865.
Just a note for today’s devotion. Abraham Lincoln was dead in 1872. He could not have signed the Emancipation Proclamation. He actually signed it in 1863. Just thought you’d want to be accurate
Thank you to those who have pointed out the inaccuracy of the year for the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. We have corrected the text on this blog post. It now reads 1863 (rather than 1872 as originally posted).