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by Rev. Fr. V.V. Paulose, Toronto, Canada
“He has sent me to proclaim that freedom for the prisoners that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be free.” (Luke 4:18)
The freed, the oppressor or the oppressed - where
do you belong?
The air of freedom is the life blood of the progress of human civilization and
the existence of happy human life. Tears and sorrows, curse and death never
leave from the homes of the oppressed. A number of modern homes are really the
virtual chambers of torture in the name of family honors, oppressive religious
customs, sexual exploitation, parental, spousal, and child abuses. The society
where we are living is no exception- there are people in the entertainment
world, the sports arenas, spiritual horizon, the political, social and economic
spheres, with the eyes of vultures for the innocents to be pried and to be
eaten. The cry of the oppressed is most often suppressed or silenced by the
bullets and death or more abuse, but the days of the oppressors are numbered.
For this, we need liberators and saviors. The cry of the oppressed is heard and
unanswered and ultimately the real freedom is to be blossomed by the father of
all the liberators - Jesus. “If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed”
(John 8:36). Don’t be dejected and depressed at your chains. Jesus, the loving
God of Justice won’t wait to do his justice and set you free. You should
remember that you are not alone. 400 years of white people’s inhuman torture and
humiliation of the African-American was heard and justice was done at the most
unexpected and unimagined time by the election of Barak Obama as the president
of US in 2008.
Reward posters offered large sums of money for her capture, dead or alive. She
was just over 1.5 meters tall, and used to suffer from fainting spells because
of a head injury inflicted by an owner when she was younger, but many people
regarded her as extremely dangerous. Some even called her, “The Devil”. But
others, many others, called her “Moses”. She had after all, led more than 200
men, women, and children out of slavery to freedom in Canada via Underground
Railway. Her real name was Harriet Tubman, and in the years just before
America’s Civil War in the 1800’s, she risked her life time and time again,
returning to the south to guide escaped slaves to freedom in the north.
“Untie him, let him go” (John 11:44). “I’ll put my spirit on him and he’ll bring
justice to the nations” (Isaiah 42:1). Stand for justice, risk your life for
freedom to the oppressed under any conditions, and become the co-liberator to
Jesus.
Jesus, we pray for all those are in chains of oppression and exploitation. We cry with them for their speedy deliverance from their cruel masters. Let the people who fight against this be successful. All we ask in the name of Jesus. Amen.
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