Psalm 18:30 (NLT)
30 God’s way is perfect. All the Lord’s promises prove
true. He is a shield for all who look to him for protection.
Not only is God perfect, but all the things done of God
are perfection. God creates, performs and perfects what has been put in place.
God promises us many things throughout The Bible and those promises prove true.
In moments of need God is our protector even being a Father to the fatherless.
Most people know about the passion of Martin Luther King
Jr. for racial justice and nonviolent resistance. However, some people aren't
as familiar with King's deep personal faith in Christ. In his book Welcoming
Justice, Charles Marsh describes one of King's profound encounters with the
Risen Christ.
[In January 1956, Martin Luther King Jr.] returned home
around midnight after a long day of organizational meetings. His wife and young
daughter were already in bed, and King was eager to join them. But a
threatening call—the kind of call he was getting as many as 30 to 40 times a
day—interrupted his attempt to get some much-needed rest. When he tried to go
back to bed, he could not shake the menacing voice that kept repeating the
hateful words in his head.
King got up, made a pot of coffee, and sat down at his
kitchen table. With his head buried in his hands, he cried out to God. There in
his kitchen in the middle of the night, when he had come to the end of
strength, King met the living Christ in an experience that would carry him
through the remainder of his life. "I heard the voice of Jesus saying
still to fight on," King later recalled. "He promised never to leave
me, never to leave me alone … He promised never to leave me, no never
alone."
In the stillness of the Alabama night, the voice of Jesus
proved more convincing than the threatening voice of the anonymous caller. The
voice of Jesus gave him the courage to press through the tumultuous year of
1956 to the victorious end of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. More than that, it
gave him a vision for ministry that would drive him for the rest of his life.
No matter what we are going through God has a plan for
our life. Sometimes the road may seem difficult, but we must remember God’s way
is perfect.
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