MONDAY January 20, 2025

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:28

Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. He became a well-educated Baptist preacher and an advocate for Civil Rights in America in the 1950’s and 1960’s. He used the power of preaching to speak a bold message of Christ’s love to help unify people. Martin understood there is no partiality with God (Romans 2:11); in God’s eyes people were all the same. Knowing this, he had a dream to share:

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’ ”

Martin desired to see America become a better place for all people––to see men, women and children of every nationality come together by holding firm to the biblical truths written by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

God created all men equal. With great conviction, Martin lived his life in accordance with his message. Sadly, on April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated when he stood on the balcony of his second-floor hotel room in Memphis, Tennessee. A sniper shot him dead. He was killed for what he believed, preached, and dreamed could happen when people would accept each other, regardless of their background and the color of their skin––for we are all one in Christ.

Today, if we embrace the biblical view Martin preached, the world could become a better place to live. In Proverbs 22:2, we are told: The rich and the poor have this in common, the LORD is the maker of them all. May we keep this in mind and treat each other with kindness and acceptance. This is exactly what Martin Luther King Jr. aimed to do in his life.

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.
~Harry S. Truman~

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