A devotional thought presented originally to River Street Cafe, Regent Park Toronto, Friday 10 June 2016 by Captain Michael Ramsay and the Arthur Meighen Centre, 15 June 2016 by Sarah-Grace Ramsay
Read Luke
6:26-31
Every volunteer in Martin Luther King Junior’s movement
for freedom was required to sign the following pledge.
I HEREBY PLEDGE MYSELF – MY PERSON AND BODY
– TO THE NON-VIOLENT MOVEMENT. THEREFORE I WILL KEEP THE FOLLOWING TEN
COMMANDMENTS:
- MEDITATE daily on the teachings and life of Jesus
- REMEMBER always that the nonviolent movement in Birmingham seeks justice and reconciliation – not victory.
- WALK and TALK in the manner of love, for God is love.
- PRAY daily to be used by God in order that all men might be free.
- SACRIFICE personal wishes in order that all men might be free.
- OBSERVE with friend and foe the ordinary rules of courtesy.
- SEEK to perform regular service for others and for the world.
- REFRAIN from the violence of fist, tongue, or heart.
- STRIVE to be in good spiritual and bodily health.
- FOLLOW the directions of the movement and of the captain of a demonstration.
I sign this pledge having seriously
considered what I do and with the determination and will to persevere.
God used the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther
King Junior to change a country and to change our world. God used him to
peacefully initiate reconciliation. Here is a key note: This was done in the
power of Jesus. When Martin Luther King Jr. was violently killed by his enemies,
his friends refused the temptation to respond in kind. They gave up their right
for vengeance and thus reconciliation was possible. MLK, just like Bishop
Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela after him, followed Jesus and Jesus' teaching on peace and
reconciliation and whole countries and our whole world were changed because of
it. Just think, as we follow Jesus and His teaching on peace and reconciliation how much He
will change our societies, our communities, and even our very lives.
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