ASSURANCE: No God, Know Fear…Know God, No Fear

Trinity United Methodist Church's Podcast

TOUCHING THE HUMAN HEART AND LIFE: #7

The current TIME magazine is a special double issue devoted to next week’s 50th anniversary of the march, the speech, and the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Hundreds of thousands of folks came to Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963 to share in the historic event on the National Mall that touched our nation’s soul. Five years later King’s life would end at age 39 by an assassin’s bullet in Memphis where he was working on behalf of the city’s garbage collectors.

For years Dr. King had lived with threats, hate mail, and bombs and bullets aimed at him and his family’s home. An African-American church matriarch known as Mother Pollard once assured King with the Biblical promise, “God’s gonna take care of you.” Later he wrote of the impact of that assurance in time of trouble, “Since that dreary night in 1956, Mother Pollard has passed on to glory and I have known very few quiet days. I have been tortured within by the raging fires of tribulation. I have been forced to muster what strength and courage I have to withstand howling winds of pain and jostling storms of adversity. But as the years have unfolded, the eloquently simple words of Mother Pollard have come back to me again and again to give light and peace and guidance to my troubled soul, ‘God’s gonna take care of you.’”

August 25, 2013
Psalm 46
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