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You can be what you want to be |
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Long before Abraham Lincoln became president, he had great compassion for the plight of the slaves. On one occasion, he was passing the slave market just in time to see a young black girl being auctioned off. He noticed a man he knew, who was noted for his cruelty, bidding on this particular girl and Mr. Lincoln was constrained to stop and enter the bidding himself. He won the bid and walked away with his ”property.” There was a sullen, angry expression on the black girl’s face because she knew in her heart that here was another white man who had bought her and would abuse her. As they walked away from the slave block, however, Mr. Lincoln turned to the young girl and said, ”You are free.” ”What does that mean?” she demanded. ”It means, you are free,” Mr. Lincoln replied. ”Does it mean that I can be what I want to be?” she asked. ”Yes,” Mr. Lincoln said, ”you can be what you want to be.” ”Does it mean,” she went on, ”that I can go where I want to go?” ”Yes, you can go where you want to go,” Mr. Lincoln reassured her. ”Then,” her lips turning into a smile for the first time, ”Then, I’ll go with you!” she said happily. Being purchased, she chose to follow. Peter tells us, ”Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of Christ.” We, too, were born into slavery. We were born into sin. ”Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death... or of obedience unto righteousness? |
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