Steve Sikes Blog
Steve Sikes Blog
“Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.”
(Martin Luther King, Jr. “Strength to Love” speech, 1963)
A few months before the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, I chaperoned our oldest son’s High School music group to Georgia’s capital city. After their performance at Six Flags over Georgia, we toured pre-Olympic sites, saw a Braves baseball game and viewed the “Sweet Auburn” neighborhood and home church of Martin Luther King, Jr.
I was reminded that although King was the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize (1964) for his efforts to end racial segregation and racial discrimination, his life was far from peaceful! He was assassinated on April 4, 1968. So it is when a person goes against the flow of society, even when it is best for society to listen and make changes! Running against majority’s flow continues to be socially unacceptable and reputation threatening – if not life threatening. Just ask Jesus!
Keeping our eyes on Jesus and going against the flow can become so wearisome. Take heart! Pay careful attention to the following words of togetherness and hope in an old freedom song sung during the Civil War Era: Walk Together Children.
Walk together children
Don’ you get weary
Walk together children
Don’ you get weary
Oh, talk together children
Don’ you get weary
There’s a great camp meeting in the promised land
Sing together children
Don’ you get weary
Sing together children
Don’ you get weary
Oh, shout together children
Don’ you get weary
There’s a great camp meeting in the promised land
God is good all the time and all the time God is good. Mr. Steve