Today we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but every day we benefit from the cause for which he fought, racial equity and justice—not that we’ve arrived but that we are on the journey.
You are familiar with the challenges we face as a nation, and as the big C church in attempting to move toward kingdom living. Our world needs what we have to bring, and we need to show up in ways that help friends, neighbors, relatives, and co-workers better understand what Jesus has to offer.
It’s confusing when we blindly support personalities, platforms, parties in the political arena because the basic ideas of life, family, equality, and justice get distorted by the add-ons.
I pray for divine sync.
I’m encouraged by the reality that two stories are moving through time. There is the upper story of God’s redemptive plan that moves on His divine timeline and is unhindered by what is happening in the lower story of your life and mine.
God is on a rescue mission in our world. He is sovereignly moving toward the good for which we pray and dream—Good News for the poor, release for the captive, freedom for the prisoner, hope for the brokenhearted, joy for those who mourn—the coming of heaven to earth.
Nothing less completely satisfies.
Until then, we need to sync.
I believe Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. experienced divine sync, and we need that as well.
I call it a sync when our lower story can sync with the upper story. You see examples in the Hebrew patriarchs like Jacob when he paused to pray at Bethel.
The evening where he saw the ladder to heaven, the covenant God initiated with Abraham was reinforced to Jacob, and He understood what he was to do to cooperate with God.
We need to sync our story with God’s story.
Some people call them “thin spaces,” where it seems that heaven touches the earth when people pray.
I don’t experience a thin space all that often, but I keep on praying. I continue to show up often before God in a posture of listening. I practice saying to Him; I yield to Your way. Lead me.
When we look at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, and we listen to his messages, it is obvious there were times there was sync between heaven and earth. Praise God.
Thank you, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
We continue today the fight for racial reconciliation and equality.
How do we navigate the daily choices of where to put our energy and time? We pray. We open ourselves to the divine sync believing God is leading us every day even when it seems less obvious.
God’s chosen to partner with His people, and He gives us a lot of freedom to choose in our lower story. He’s decided not to control us. We have free will.
When we use our freedom to choose obedience to the word and the Spirit, we will be difference makers.
We need divine sync.