This morning’s word is Take the Hard Right.
The anchor verse is Hebrews 12:1.
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.” (NIV)
Today is May 17. Seventy-two years ago today, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education. Unanimously.
Charles Hamilton Houston was the dean of Howard Law School. He designed the legal strategy that became Brown. He died in 1950. Four years before the ruling.
The work continued without him.
The work continued because of him.
That is what the cloud looks like.
A cloud of witnesses is not a cloud of heroes who got it right the first time. It is a cloud of people who carried the work for a future they would not always live to see. Some of them in courtrooms. Some of them in prisons. Some of them in their own homes, in private moments, choosing what was right when no one would have applauded the choice.
The race is set. The cloud surrounds you. You are not running alone.
I am not here to prove myself. I am here to make HIM visible.
The full Marc My Sabbath homily for this morning is on graceandpeacestudio.com/sabbath.