Gatekeeper
Shades of Reason
It is quite obvious that there are benefits when we love others as ourselves. We profit by the self fulfillment love provides us, and others profit also. Love is a win win for all involved. If we are to take Jesus at his word, it is God's will that we love all people. It is love that fills us up as individual givers, and others too are filled as receivers of that love. The greatest visionary of all time, Jesus the Christ's only desire was to do his Fathers will, and to help us as a people realize together a world where love reigns supreme in the hearts of all humanity.
I'm sure you have all heard Martin Luther King Jr's "Mountaintop" Speech. If you haven't, it is worth watching, and if you have, it is worth watching again. One of the most memorable parts of that speech is when he said the following: "We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now, because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land! And so I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man! Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!!"
This speech resonates deeply within those of us who live our lives having seen the promised land from afar off, but who know that we might not get there with humanity as a united people. For those of us who live our lives with the thought of future generations being the beneficiary of our labors, live our lives for this end: Peace on earth and good will toward men. We do not live for personal reward, yet we are rewarded with love and with the knowledge of the fulfillment of the promise given to Abraham so many years ago. We have faith in that promise, thus our actions reflect our faith. Even if we never enter into the promised land ourselves, we can die knowing we did our part to help fulfill God's will for mankind. What keeps us going is to do the will of him who sent us to accomplish his work. This is our food, our sustenance, and just as we are reaping the labors of those who came before us in this present age, so shall our descendants reap our labors tomorrow.
“My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest. Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
MLK: "Mountaintop" Speech - Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta on January 15, 1929 and died April 4, 1968.
I'm sure you have all heard Martin Luther King Jr's "Mountaintop" Speech. If you haven't, it is worth watching, and if you have, it is worth watching again. One of the most memorable parts of that speech is when he said the following: "We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now, because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land! And so I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man! Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!!"
This speech resonates deeply within those of us who live our lives having seen the promised land from afar off, but who know that we might not get there with humanity as a united people. For those of us who live our lives with the thought of future generations being the beneficiary of our labors, live our lives for this end: Peace on earth and good will toward men. We do not live for personal reward, yet we are rewarded with love and with the knowledge of the fulfillment of the promise given to Abraham so many years ago. We have faith in that promise, thus our actions reflect our faith. Even if we never enter into the promised land ourselves, we can die knowing we did our part to help fulfill God's will for mankind. What keeps us going is to do the will of him who sent us to accomplish his work. This is our food, our sustenance, and just as we are reaping the labors of those who came before us in this present age, so shall our descendants reap our labors tomorrow.
“My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest. Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
MLK: "Mountaintop" Speech - Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta on January 15, 1929 and died April 4, 1968.
