Remix: I have a Dream

I have a dream that one day my children will be judged, not by the content of their character but by the character of Jesus Christ.

Today our nation reflects on the horrors of racism. Our forefathers brutally oppressed an entire race. Educated people of “advanced” societies thought nothing of ripping children from their parents arms and selling them to the highest bidder so that they could continue to live a life of ease and luxury.

But thank God the story doesn’t end there. Today, through a marvelous series of events we live in a country where the majority race elected to Commander and Chief a person from the very minority race they oppressed just 50 years ago.

Parents are dreamers. We dream about our kids. We dream that one day they will rise up and be successful. We dream that they will have sterling character. We pray they don’t make the same idiotic mistakes we made. And now parents of all races in America know that  their children will not be judged based on the color of their skin. Race no longer determines how far a person can go in society, the work place, or the political office.

But we should be deeply troubled by what our forefathers did and what it says about us. It demonstrates that humans, regardless of education, have no depth of depravity they have not descended to.  Left to our own devices, and by our very nature, we all have a deep rooted desire to make the rules and be the ruler, to be the legislator and the judge.  I see this in my life and now in my children’s life. The desire to usurp authority and cease control.

One day our children will be judged not on the basis of race, but on the content of their character. The judge will be Holy, Absolutely Righteous and will execute judgement based on if we have lived for ourselves and our glory or for him and his glory. The problem is we are all guilty of high treason for attempting to overthrow the rules and authority of God and we are deserving to live out the reality of our character under the wrath of almighty God for all eternity.

But God has provided a way of escape that if we repent and turn to Christ and trust him to be our righteousness that God will credit to our account his own sons character.

Therefore my only hope, my greatest dream, the highest aspiration is that one day my children will be judged, not by the content of their character but by the character of Jesus Christ.

Man of Sorrows

Man of sorrows what a name
For the Son of God who came
Ruined sinners to reclaim
Halleluiah what a savior

Bearing shame and scoffing rude
In my place condemned He stood
Sealed my pardon with His blood
Halleluiah what a savior

Guilty, vile and helpless we
Spotless lamb of God was He
Full atonement can it be
Halleluiah what a savior

Lifted up was He to die
It is finished was His cry
Now in heaven exalted high

Praise the Lord
Praise the Lord
Praise the Lord

When He comes our glorious king
All his ransomed home to bring
Then anew this song we’ll sing
Halleluiah Halleluiah
Halleluiah what a savior