THE GIFT OF A DREAM (29); LIBERATION IS HERE

"I am leaving this legacy to all of you...to bring peace, justice, equality, love and a fulfillment of what our lives should be. Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die - the dream of freedom and peace." - Rosa Parks
 

Rosa Parks

On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger in Montgomery, Ala., thus launching the modern-day civil-rights movement. Much of the media described her as a tired seamstress, no troublemaker. Rosa Parks was no tired seamstress. As she said of that brave action she took, “The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.” But the media got it wrong. Rosa Parks was a first-class troublemaker. She was raised to believe that she had a right to be respected, and to demand that respect. Jim Crow laws were entrenched then, and segregation was violently enforced. Rosa was riding on a city bus Dec. 1, 1955, when a white man demanded her seat. Parks refused, despite rules requiring blacks to yield their seats to whites. Two black Montgomery women had been arrested earlier that year on the same charge, but Parks wasn't perturbed-she had a dream.

What was all this trouble for? Some might ask. The truth is Rosa Parks, didn't care what hardship her stand would cause her; topmost on her mind was LIBERATION for the blacks.

Beloved, the same way over 2000 years ago, a saviour who is Christ the Lord, was born, to go through the trouble of seeing all men LIBERATED, from the law of sin and death - from the bonds of the devil. He wasn't perturbed by the pain, why? He had a dream. As we celebrate today, let's take advantage of the liberation Jesus Christ has made available for us all, by His birth, death and resurrection. Happy Christmas!