Moab is my washpot!
What do we wash in Moab?
Where did we come from?
Where is our great awakening?
What do we represent and how do we reflect the image of God in our blackness and in our Moabidity?
I have laid before the Lord for so many years. Searching history for some dynamic moment to have been documented where repentance and faith and great changes of life and situation were memoired for me to place in front of my children to give great credence to the work of Scripture in our heritage. I wept before God. I own my Christian heritage and anyone and anywhere those whose testimonies were to the glory of God were my food for setting before my children as their spiritual ancestries. They accepted it and made few complaints for the most part.
I wasn’t content with reading about white tears from the coal miners and South American revivals, while knowing that there were many many atrocities at the same time that were going on in my own people group. Spiritual awakenings, I had seen personally and been privy to some in my own present day. That wasn’t contenting me. I needed a historic documentation. I lament the African participation in the slaying of the innocents in Moses day. It made me historically sad. Pharoah and Nebuchadnezzar, not to mention many other Darkly colored villains of Scripture scared me about my own cultural proclivities. What are the purveyors of the histories that I have learned and purported trying to make me feel about myself and my identity. I am black. I am not as privileged. I mustn't be trusted with authority lest I get puffed up like my ancient counterparts, etc.,etc.
God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life. God loves your blackness and has always had a wonderful plan for your beauty and humanity.,etc.,etc.
I am not sure that I have accurately expressed that to my children. Your body type and your color and your humanity is not less than or an afterthought of our Lord. He planned that through Christ all of the atrocities that have gotten us to this place in history will be dealt with in His mighty equality. She shall be saved through the childbearing, whatever that means. If they continue…?
Instead of lamenting your womanhood and your blackness as not being recognized by your surrounding culture, celebrate the image of God that is recognized in scripture and see what God says that He will do to the valley. Lift it up. What he will do to the invisible. Shine a light on it. I have water on Moab right now and I have my shoe over a group of people that seem invisible or vulnerable in the history of the world as a whole. This sickness is not because they are more wicked than any other but that the works of God might be manifest through Him and that His glory might be seen in the foolish things of this world bringing to naught the things that are exalted.
That NO FLESH might glory!
To God be the glory! Our beauty is not something to flaunt, but a gift to be cherished. Our expression is not to compete with the Lord, but to Thank God for!
Some of us are not as gifted as Tina Turner was, but she gave us a goal in our marital love to win over our husbands. That is a type of cleansing that only the Moabites and those who imitate them can know.
