#WOTD: Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Mountain, montagne, montagna, montaña.
"I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land!" - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
As we come into the final week of Black History Month, that statement by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. simply resonates. Sure some speculate that he had a feeling he was going to die and some argue it was the best sermon he ever preached.
However, I think the most important statement in the entire speech is captured in the seven words at the beginning of the sentence. Seven is the number for wholeness. "I just want to do God's will." That's wholeness. Martin had found and experienced what many of us want. That mountaintop experience with God that will bring us into wholeness.
How profound that God gave Martin seven words to pass onto us. "I just want to do God's will." Martin like all of us had a choice. He could choose to go home and sit down and do nothing to improve his life, the lives of his children and the lives of Black people and oppressed people all around the world. Or, he could choose to do God's will. Which ended in his death and made non-violent resistance to oppression change the state of humanity forever.
Today, know this to be true...in order to walk into your destiny you must be willing to say those seven simple words. Yet also know, that walking in His will can lead you to be uncomfortable, take you out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary, and may even take you into the unknown. Yet, it's His will that brings us into wholeness.
Have a fit, fun and fabulous Friday!
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