Martin Luther King, Jr
One of my heroes
I don't have many heroes to be honest, because I'm afraid it may turn into a type of idolatory, but I do have a few, and most of them are in the Bible: Jesus, Gideon, King David and Martin Luther King. (Oh and JR with his pants over his trousers, but that's something slightly different)
I've always been a big stickler for justice, especially racial justice, and MLK's courageous campaigning for negroes, plus his wisdom, great faith, sincere humility and servitude and amazing way with words make him a big hero of mine. He's one of the people I really look forward to shaking hands with when I get to the New Earth (after Judgement Day), and I shall say to him "Your dream has come true, Mr King. Your promised land is a reality."
The reason I am naming this post after him is because I stumbled upon a page of Martin Luther King Quotes, and reading through them made me almost cry. I stirred by every single one, and I found it hard to choose one that I could use for a journal entry. But then God spoke to me directly into my current situation through one of them.
You see at the moment school is really tough. We have an inspection coming up and it's really worrying me and getting me down. I feel like a big mountain is on top of me. A mountain I can't sumount. It makes me feel like a terrible teacher, and makes me wish I wasn't one. I couldn't get through to God in prayer either, I could feel my life sinking into bad habits I hate again, and I was feeling very very low about myself. Today started off badly because I hardly slept last night with worrying about school and other personal issues...
And then MLK's candid words spoke to me so loud:
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
What are we to say that our job is good or bad, that we would like something better? A job is a gift from GOD. I need to appreciate it, but not only that, I need to do my BEST at it, as an outpouring in return for what God has given me and done for me. Thankyou MLK for helping me realise this. I'm called to be a teacher, and though there may be crappy bits, I will do it as well as my gifts can let me, so that one day I will hear the words from my heavenly father: "Well done, good and faithful servant." For that is what he lived for, to serve. And that is what I live for, to serve him, through serving others. LORD, give me more humility, and give me a servant heart like Martin LK.