Yes, we got over.
Read: Hebrews 11
“Faith is the substance of things hoped for [v.1]”
There is a roll call of generations of black patriots who with blood. sweat and tears, paved the way that so that we can have the life we enjoy today. The writer of Hebrews admonishes us to remember those who have gone before, not counting the cost of what they had to sacrifice for future generations.
We are challenged to remember that while their tears watered the soil, their blood moisturized it and their body manured it; they did so for the benefit of their children and their children’s children.
Moses faithfully pleaded for the Children of Israel, as they languished as slaves in Egypt, yet he did not enter the Promised Land.
People of color are called upon to remember the faithfulness of our people’ struggles from Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Marcus Garvey, Nat Turner, Martin Luther King Jr., and many others. The faith they had, while enduring severe oppression, beatings and deprivation, was placed in a God whose word promised, “I will never leave thee nor forsake thee”.
Schools and universities such as Spelman and Howard were built by former slaves, now poor sharecroppers, not for themselves but for those who would come after them.
Hebrews 11 unveils the sacrifice given by the “cloud of witnesses”, and moves to chapter 12 v.1 with a challenge, “….Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us”.
Let us adopt the roll of the faithful, so we too can endure in tough times.
Pastor G. Franklyn Johnson was born in Jamaica and in his late teens migrated to the United States to complete his education. Upon completion, he received his designation in Business Administration majoring in Accounting/Economics. Returning to Jamaica he felt the call of God to be more active in Ministry, a call he first received when he accepted the Lord just a year prior to leaving home. Bible school and launching Youth for Christ in the parish of his residence, occupied the time he had left each moment when he was away from his secular work
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In 1977 he migrated to Canada and continued to serve in ministry as Associate Pastor. He also served as board member/ speaker for Full Gospel Men’s Ministry. He has ministered in many areas as called to in the Caribbean, Canada, Africa and Canada.
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