This Weeks Notes ~ February 7, 2022
On this First Sunday we will take a look at Isaiah 6:1-8. This passage is not about Isaiah’s call, but a renewal to a call or a re-commissioning of our lives for a new situation by the death of King Uzziah. This week, the text invites us to go back to where we started. We can reclaim our initial acceptance of the faith, when we first said yes to Jesus, or first said it in public in the presence of the loving and supporting church family. Do you remember when you first heard this amazing, good news, heard it in a way that changed your life? Maybe this is the week to reaffirm that statement of faith.
February is a monthly observance of National Black History Month. It calls us to realize that our relationship with one another and with the whole creation begins with our relationship with God. We believe that every person is created in the image of God and called to be a beloved child of God. However, the sin of racism, the failure to live out our baptismal promises of resisting injustice, and not hearing the pain of those who are hurting (Romans 12:15) has led many to feel unloved. We who have decided to follow Jesus must actively participate in God’s transformative work of dismantling racism and other forces of evil and building a more just society.
National Black History Month serves as both a celebration and a powerful reminder that Black history is American history, Black culture is American culture, and Black stories are essential to the ongoing story of America — our faults, our struggles, our progress, and our aspirations.
Our Nation was founded on the idea that all of us are created equal and deserve to be treated with equal dignity throughout our lives. We have never walked away from this idea. When we face tragedies of racism, stereo-typing black people and other people of color, slavery, discrimination, hatred, other practices of systemic racism hold our nation back from being the best we can be in America.
Let us all strive to be a part of the solution and not a part of the problem.
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” Dr. Martin Luther King. Letter from Birmingham Jail.
Glory To God!
“I don’t know how but I know WHO!”
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Grace and Peace, Pastor Nelda
Dr. Nelda Barrett Murraine is pastor at First United Methodist Church – PO Box 146 – 229 W 4th St. Kennedale, TX 76060
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