Today's daily lesson comes from Luke chapter 13 verses 10 through 14:
10 Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. 11 And behold, there was a woman who had had a disabling spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not fully straighten herself. 12 When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your disability.” 13 And he laid his hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and she glorified God. 14 But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the people, “There are six days in which work ought to be done. Come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day.”
For some folks it's just never the right day for other folks to find freedom.
There's always an issue, or a consideration, or a more sound and prudent time. Bottom line, we need to wait.
In his famous Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Dr. Martin Luther King responded to criticism that he and other civil rights leaders needed to slow down their demands for equality. "For years now I have heard the word 'Wait!'" Dr. King said, "It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This 'wait' has almost always meant 'never.'" He then went on to quote Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall in saying, "justice too long delayed is justice denied."
Freedom, equal rights, equal access, and justice equally applied -- there are some things that just shouldn't be delayed.
And we should thank God for those willing to lay it on the line in order to see that they're done today.
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