God & Racial Tensions…

When I attended Mount Zion AME church, there was a woman in the choir who sang the most beautiful version of Way Maker.  Even now, years later, I can hear her sing it.  That’s how amazing it was! That’s how amazing she was!

Covid brought some very difficult times and Mount Zion was forced to close it’s door and do their services over the phone.  Truly a tragedy, for both the Preacher and the People truly loved Jesus and were filled with the Holy Spirit!  I wish more people could have attended church there!

They could not have been more kind and loving at Mount Zion and for years I was so grateful to attend such a loving church.  I was the only white person attending an all African American church.  And I loved it 🙂 

The media will show us pictures of violence and hate. It screams with headlines that frighten us all. But the majority of people, both black and white, are good and they are kind. But because the media does not make money on that headline; they don’t report it. Instead they try to frighten us because Fear Sells.

Flash forward a few years, and our country is filled with racial tensions, but I assure you that Heaven is not!  Did I disagree with some who attended Mount Zion on certain issues?  Sure.  But that was not because of our color, it was because we had different life experiences, histories and beliefs

But those differences should never interfere with our ability to love God and love each other.  And at Mount Zion – they didn’t!  And that is the model we all need to follow.

The government and the media seek to divide us.  In some cases, they even seem to seek to persuade us to hate one another.  But we do NOT have to listen because God Loves ALL people!

Instead, we can follow our Lord Jesus and focus on loving God and each other.  It matters not to Jesus what country we are from or what color we are.  It matters not how much money we have, or how much we don’t.  And it does not matter to Jesus how we dress, lol. 

What matters to Jesus, is do we accept His Great Gift of Salvation?  Do we love God and love each other?  Do we do our best, with the Help of the Holy Spirit to read and understand the Holy Bible?  These are the things that matter.  And in the end, they will be all that matters!

Because it is in the end that the real beginning starts.  Home in Heaven with God, together.