Welcome brothers and sisters, I urge you
Heed my words today
We are more than conquerors, sweet
church, yes this I dare to say
The oppression you feel will not last
forever
For the Lord stands firm by his children’s
sides through all fearsome endeavours
We can do everything through Christ
who gives us strength.
So what is strength?
Explain it to me
To force your authority
over someone through brute force?
To enslave innocent
children with no remorse?
To take away a man’s
sense of identity
Who they are, their
love ones and their family?
If that is your idea of
strength then you have gravely mistaken me
And where is this God you
say has never forsaken me?
Does he see my pain when
he’s there at my side?
Does he see the hurt in my
tired eyes?
And my heart, does he know
how broken it is?
How worn down and chewed
up undone it is?
Indeed times for the clenching of
fists will arise before us
But let us not be like the wild
beasts, charged with with bloodthirsty lust
Flee from the temptation of violence when
it exposes itself
For violence brings forth more
violence
Causing pain to pass through time
until there’s nothing but silence
From generation upon generation hate
grows
And clouds the minds and grabs hold
of its victim’s souls
Leave the cause of hate to be lost
with the past
Why? When affliction
and suffering continues to last
So let us join forces as one to break
this curse of hate towards one another
That has imprisoned us causing
resentment towards each other
Now I know what I ask of you may seem
impossible
To forgive and forget
All the anguish we have felt
I understand, I see with my own eyes
How they look at us
with hate and despise?
They hate our black
skin
How it is so tough yet
thin
They hate our dance
moves and our rhythm
Compared to their awkward 1-2 step that looks like a
chicken
God holds every name across his palm
in one line
Well maybe there wasn’t enough space to write mine
I don’t see him, do you?
Not so much, for a while
I see anger, I do, and I also see pain.
Frustration and weakness and cruelty and shame.
The way they look at us, like filth, like sad little
lepers.
Where is our dignity Pastor? And where is our shepherd?
In the past they thought
of us as retards, who were good for nothing
And used us as mere tools for
farming and scrubbing
Walk around like Gods,
like a superior race
And treat us like animals
of some insignificant race
Just last week I heard on the news of lynching all over
I prayed and I prayed, tell me please, when will this all
be over?
When will we be truly free?
To be happy and black, to be proud to be me
To see black as my pride, not a stain of a tragedy?
Or the mark of a slave, endowed by his majesty?
Deep within me I admit, the anger that I feel
But my Father up heaven teaches me to let go and be healed
My son was taken from
me and I will never see him again
Embrace him in my arms
and see his sweet little grin
That pain doesn’t just die
or wither
More like it festers,
it grows and spreads like tumour
My mind and my heart,
it consumes me all over
But the Lord opened the eyes of my
heart and showed me his face
His love and mercy and filled me with
His grace
I tell you now he has rescued us from
the dominion of darkness and brought us into His kingdom
Where we have redemption and the
forgiveness of sins
Liberate yourself from the hurt, and
release the chains of hate and agony that bind you
For the Lord tells us to love our
enemies and do good to them
And lend to them without expectation
of return
Then our
reward will be great and we will be sons and daughters of the Most High
Because He
is kind to the ungrateful and wicked
Let us show love and kindness to our
oppressors
And leave the battle to the Lord, for
indeed he has rescued us from dominion of darkness
To all who feel they are weak and
unable to forgive and forget
Trust on His Word and lean on Him
for strength
For he says,
My grace is sufficient for you, for
my power is made perfect in weakness.
Therefore I say delight in
weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties.
For when
we are weak, then we is strong.
This my family is true strength
by
echoshimix
Gabby
Ese
