When Will The Persecution Of African Americans Stop, Lord?
The recent months have seen several racial attacks in America comprehensively covered in the new media. The harassment includes black children in Philadelphia who were not allowed to swim at a primarily white country club after being invited. Reports of the incident state that racial slurs were hurled at the children by parents of white children at the pool.
Another attack occurred in Missouri where a black teenager was set on fire by two white classmates. Ironically, it is now the black teenager who has been charged with assault for an earlier altercation with one of the teenage relatives of the white kids who set him on fire. Even First Lady Michelle Obama was compared to a gorilla by the former chairman of the South Carolina Election Commission.
It is truly heartbreaking that at a time when a black man can be elected President, a black man can be appointed Attorney General, and a black woman can be nominated Surgeon General that African Americans of any station are still victims of verbal and physical attacks solely because of their race.
As we know, the persecution of people of African descent in the United States of America is as old as the country itself. But, how long do African Americans have to wait for the persecution to end? And, what does God want African American do to while they are being persecuted?
David calls out to God in Psalm 143 when he is being persecuted. Davis reveals his innermost feeling about the persecution to God. Many times when persecuted, African Americans feel the same way. In this Psalm, we find how the one after God’s own heart responds to persecution.
Psalm 143
A psalm of David.
1 O LORD, hear my prayer,
listen to my cry for mercy;
in your faithfulness and righteousness
come to my relief.
2 Do not bring your servant into judgment,
for no one living is righteous before you.
3 The enemy pursues (persecutes) me,
he crushes me to the ground;
he makes me dwell in darkness
like those long dead.
4 So my spirit grows faint within me;
my heart within me is dismayed.
5 I remember the days of long ago;
I meditate on all your works
and consider what your hands have done.
6 I spread out my hands to you;
my soul thirsts for you like a parched land.
Selah
7 Answer me quickly, O LORD;
my spirit fails.
Do not hide your face from me
or I will be like those who go down to the pit.
8 Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love,
for I have put my trust in you.
Show me the way I should go,
for to you I lift up my soul.
9 Rescue me from my enemies, O LORD,
for I hide myself in you.
10 Teach me to do your will,
for you are my God;
may your good Spirit
lead me on level ground.
11 For your name’s sake, O LORD, preserve my life;
in your righteousness, bring me out of trouble.
12 In your unfailing love, silence my enemies;
destroy all my foes,
for I am your servant.
We find in this Psalm that David’s enemy tried to destroy him. The enemy kept going after David relentlessly. David’s spirit became overwhelmed and his heart desolate. David was being terminated by the enemy. But, David knew that he was to “cast his burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain you; he shall never permit the righteous to be shaken” which is found in Psalm 55:22. God tells us to cast the burdens of persecution on Him.
Jesus tells us in Matthew 5:11-12 that “blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.” We will be rewarded greatly in Heaven because we are persecuted. We are blessed because we are persecuted. And, we are to rejoice and be glad.
Jesus also tells us in Matthew 5:44, “but I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven.” He wants others to know that we are His children. We prove this by doing the opposite of what the world would want us to do to those who mistreat us.
God wants us to know that we are not the first to be persecuted wrongly. Jesus was persecuted wrongly. Jesus tells us himself in John 15:18, “if the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.” God also wants us to know that He will stand with us, hear us, and always be with us whatever happens to us. In 2 Corinthians, it tells us that “we are hunted down, but never abandoned by God. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed.”
God wants us to lean upon Him when the enemy attacks us. We are to run under His protection. He tells us in 2 Corinthians 12: 9-10, “…My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore … boast all the more gladly about … weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake … delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.” God will be our strength in our times of weakness – when persecutions, insults, hardships, and difficulties happen.
God never intended for His creation to try and destroy and hurt one another. But, we do. Therefore, God has reassured us African Americans in His word that He hears our call, He is there for us through the persecution, and He will combat and renew us. We have nothing to fear in the persecution of any of us African Americans because our big Daddy will take care of our enemies. So, have faith child of God, lean into God, and let Him deal with our enemies.
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When will black people start to acknowledge that being black is more than just your skin color in this country and start working together instead of chanting their speeches everyday that we’re just like them so they should accept us.
Sincere thawt, tb 23 is 100
The first pge of the bible says; taken out of the original tounge diligently compared and REVISED. Compared to what and who’s doing the revisisng
The king james version was writtn in the 1600’s. And james was a phagot
God don’t give his inspiring words to no damn punk or white folks after destroyin sodom and gomorah and cursing all with white skin
Black power!
I BELIEVE THE BIBLES WORD, AND THEY WEREN’T WRITTEN BY NO DAMN SLAVE MASTERS LIKE THAT GUY TB_23 THINKS, THE WORDS OF THE BIBLE ARE DEEPER THAN WHAT THE APPEAR WHEN YOU FIRST READ IT AND IT TAKES MORE TIME THAN ONCE OR TWICE TO UNDERSTAND THE WORDS IN BETWEEN THE LINES, BUT ANYWAYS I DON’T PAY NO MIND TO HOW EVIL THESE PEOPLE ARE TO US, BECAUSE I KNOW IF I FOLLOW GOD AND HIS SON (JESUS) RIGHTFULLY I WILL BE AWARDED BETTER THAN ANYTHING I CAN ACHIEVE IN THIS LIFE. BLACK PEOPLE ALSO HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE WAY MOST OF US BEHAVE ISN’T HELPING EITHER, (THUGS,DRUG DEALERS,STEALING,IGNORANT, NON EDUCATED PEOPLE) THAT’S A BAD LOOK, I KNOW WE AREN’T THE ONLY RACE THAT BEHAVE LIKE THIS BUT IT’S MAJORITY OF US THAT BEHAVE LIKE THIS THAT MAKE US STAND OUT. I WANT TO BE ABLE TO SEE BLACK PEOPLE RESPECTED WITH OUT PERSECUTION SOMETIME BEFORE I LEAVE SO I CAN SAY TO MYSELF THAT PEOPLE CAN CHANGE.
GOD BLESS, AND GET TO KNOW
THE REAL GOD AND HIS SON (JESUS)
AFRICANS WILL DISAGREE WIT US BEING CALLED “AFRICAN-AMERICANS” SO JUS CALL ME BLACK! AND THE PERSECUTION OF US WILL NEVER STOP UNTIL THE LORD COMES BACK TO SHOW ERRBODY WE ARE PART OF THE ORIGINAL OLIVE TREE! WE AS RACES OF COLOR NEVER NEEDED ANYTHING FROM THE WHITE RACE. BUT LOOK, ERRTHANG WE HAVE HAS BEEN STOLEN AND HAS BEEN USED AGAINST US! “ERRBODY WANNA BE A NIGGA,BUT NOBODY WANTS TO BE A NIGGA”-PAUL MOONEY
We have to remember who gave us the bible, the slave masters. We have to remember who wrote the bible, cause it was not Jesus. We have been taught not to question the religion we were given for FEAR of something bad happening.
These lawyers, politicians, cops, etc., make a living off of peoples misery and fear all over the world, not just here. We elect based on the hope that the new person can fix what the last person messed up.
Instead of going to school and becoming the lawyer, cop , or politician we march, protest, and have these B.S. blogs that will in the end do nothing but create more BS blogs.
Most of these articles on BP spawn angry, jealous, or sad feelings. There are very few that have you thinking on a positive note. BP is part of the problem cause they fuel the ongoing problem in an indirect way.
Black”equals three fifths human,gorilla,absence of color,drug addict,thief,gangbanger,illiterate,incapable of learning,shifless,uppity,dirty,nasty,rapist,murderer,and untrustworthy.white”culmination of all colors,god’s people,holy,clean,trustful,moral,always right,caring,faithful,loving,humanitarian,selfless,and beautiful etc.in america this is the way it all stacks up just about.white people have to torture and kill us because they were sanctioned by god to clean up the earth and they were given dominion over the earth.all of you black people on your knees praying whites gave ýou that religion.get up and shut up,I’m tired of your begging with no result.in this country,you are the entertainment for white people,regardless of what you want to believe,we are all living on borrowed time and whether we live or die is decided by white people,do’nt you have any mother-wit? Fools, your not wanted here.I know to fear whites,they make the rules and the punishment for breaking the rules.we should stay in our ghettos,do’nt make any waves.even though they.do’nt do anything to the court jesters,and you know who they are, they have always eliminated all real threats,even their own white presidents.So remember their religion,their god,their food,clothes,language,country,etc.
We are the people of the book….He har=ted the ones who would give birth to the Male-Child who would rule with the rod of iron……We ARE OF THE BLOOD LINE….WHO DO THE RACIST HATE….BLACKS AND JEWS….BECAUSE WE ARE THE BLOOD LINE….WHO ARE YOU REALLY.????? THAT IS THE QUESTION OF THE AGES…..TO KNOW THIS IS TO KNOW THE TRUTH…..
And rember jesus said to those roman gentile jews (white ppl)in john 8 33-44. I have done the things I have seen wit my father and you have done the things u have done wit your father. Cleary we have two differnt daddys. Who is the white boys daddy thus saith the lord;
John 8:44. U are of yo father the DEVIL
Know thy enemy
When david, who is a man after gods own heart,seen awoman he wanted he slayed the man to marry her
I’ve heard time and time that we, ALL races, are gods children. Why would god help us destroy sum of his own children
Now that we see these white kids of his mean harm to is we cry out to the father to destroy our white enemy
Jesus said to his disciplea: don’t gon into the way of the GENTILE. God said donot follow the way of the gentile…they are dullhearted and foolish this is in jerimiah
In laminations god in his anger went agints his word and slayed men women and children he even had the women eat their babies
White ppl are a curse and must be delt with. God was with moses when he split the red sea and closed it on the enemy when they came after moses and the chosen ones and killed them all. No cheek turning. No loving they enemy and jesus said that known of you keep the laws of moses; eye for an eye tooth for a tooth limb for a limb and a life for a life
BLACK POWER
God bless the child that got his own