Personally, I was really invested in watching his trial live. There is something about watching people try and solve a real life puzzle that intrigued me and also it gave me something to do while I sat at home all day. I think I was very naive to how much it had affected the nation and even my own parents. I really thought it had blown over and people were less worried about it after a year passed. I thought it was another fad... Well I was wrong obviously ...
The point of this post is not to talk about the details of the trial , the verdict, or the facts of the case.
But I've just been having a lot of "Deja Vu" recently, in my mind and honestly in my heart I have been seeing and feeling a lot of the same things I did around the presidential elections, and I'm disgusted by it.
Sooooooo many evil thoughts are being broad casted everywhere by so many people. The things people are saying to one another about their opinions on race, injustice/justice, the "N" word, and so much more is really scary to me. It's not scary just because it's mean and hateful speech, but because these are people's OPINIONS... their own personal beliefs, the truths they hold in their HEARTS. Don't get me wrong, we are all entitled to our own opinions, obviously I'm a firm believer in that, I run my own blog! But it's what lies in the hearts of the people around you, it's what flows out of those hearts that can be alarming and to me, & can be fearful because of the rottenness of it.
Now, I honestly didn't even think twice about writing a blog or sharing my opinion on anything related to the Zimmerman trial or verdict at all, until this morning when I opened the word of God... (I couldn't say no to that).
I just finished my study and devotion on the book of Luke and it was fantastic. But I was without a book to read and study. I sat there for a little bit flipping through the bible, praying and asking God what I should read, and skimming through the "intros" of each book my bible gives... I came across Malachi. Let me just say I was pretty excited because I've only read like maybe a verse or two of it, ONCE. AND because, I like the name Malachi for a boy if I ever have one in the future...lol. BUT anyways, I was just excited for something new, and I definitely enjoyed reading the first two chapters, God definitely spoke to me about several things. One of them being in chapter 2 verse 10 : NLT- Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us? Why do we profane the covenant of our ancestors by being unfaithful to one another? // NKJV- 10Have we not all one Father?
Has not one God created us?
Why do we deal treacherously with one another
By profaning the covenant of the fathers?
Now I don't know why this stuck out to me, but when I read it I instantly thought of what everyone has been bickering over, what CNN has been broadcasting about and what my family has deemed very important. I thought, it pertains to America... The nation "Under One God" has completely forgotten their God.
What I'm getting at here is not the judicial system and what some seem to think is their lack of justice. But I'm talking about the response of the nation. The filthy rotten hatred pouring out of so many hearts here in America. I have read a lot, A LOT, of articles, Facebook posts and even blogs about how people feel about the verdict (not guilty) and it has really shocked me how inconsiderate, childish and plain mean people are, especially to one another. A prime example of mine are a couple of posts on the UCF Class of 2015 (Official Facebook Page) wall. One person, the night the verdict was announced, simply posted, "Thoughts on the verdict?" and about 3-400 comments later it was a full out BRAWL. I wish I could post them all on this blog! The things people were saying to one another, using racial slurs, profanity, let's just say anything BUT "kind words", were seriously sad! I of course read them all and kept up with the dialogue between about 3 or 4 main commenters. It was vicious, and offensive! Mainly because it was all revolved around the issue of racism. As I followed along, I kept thinking, IF ONLY these people had God in their hearts, if only they knew the LOVE of Christ, if only...
As I went to study the verse using Matthew Henry's commentary I found a lot of juicy stuff!
"Now, in these verses, we have an instance of this; we here find men dealing falsely with one another, and it is because they think falsely of their God."
" It cannot be expected that he who is false to his God should be true to his friend. They had dealt treacherously with God in his tithes and offerings, and had defrauded him, and thus conscience was debauched, its bonds and cords were broken, a door was opened to all manner of injustice and dishonesty, and the bonds of relation and natural affection are broken through likewise and no difficulty made of it."
We have seem to have forgotten our God. We misplaced him. And if we did deal with him, it's been false. That, to me is THE only explanation for the foolishness I've seen displayed all over. The only explanation for why we Americas in the land of the free, are living in bondage to the enemies attack on the love we are meant to have in our hearts. I don't want to get too political or even too religious. But it breaks my heart to see the people I go to school with, the people I went to school with and even my own family members abandon their God! I may be too naive to the reality of people in America. But this is just crazy to me.
All the hate speech, all the curse words and racial terms are hurtful and the case against Zimmerman has brought on so much of that. But I pray to God Almighty to heal the nation, heal the hearts, the trauma, the oppression some feel. Also to open the eyes and soften the hearts of those who are blinded to God and who are hardened by the devil.
Forgive me if is this was too long for comfort.
God bless!
