“Calling in the Slaves”
After all these years I still have a vivid picture within myself, of 1963 slavery. I was driving through the middle of a prominent state. Most of that area is flat land as far as you could see. I looked to my right and could see a group of people, horses and wagons all in single file. They were young, middle aged, white haired old folks, women and children. They were bringing in the cotton after a hard day’s work. This may sound like a story back in the eighteen hundreds, but it wasn’t. We were visiting some relatives there. As we drove down through the old town area there were many black people sitting out front of the company store. They worked all day for the farm owner and shopped in the farm owner’s store in the evening. I know they were not called slaves in that day, but it sure had the characteristics of it. I wondered what it would be like to be a slave. I would soon find out.
Although there are many kinds of slavery, we will only discuss a few. They all have their root causes in either the master or the slave. There is forced slavery and then there is willful slavery. Jesus said “you are a slave to whatever you give yourself to” We have all read about forced slavery in early American history, but what about todays? Forced slavery is when someone or something forces us to work or do something. Willful slavery is when we willfully give ourselves to something or someone. Both are slavery and both are a trap. In the case of the old time fur trappers, the trap was designed to be permanent. The animal was never to get free from it. He would die in it and his parts sold to another.
My brothers, sisters and I were raised with Godly teaching from our mother. Our father was an alcoholic with a drinking problem and left home. He was a slave to it. For him, things had to get worse before they would get better. God was calling in His slave. Daddy would get sick of his enslavement. God kept calling until he came in. He became a free man in Jesus. Jesus makes friends not slaves.
When our father left, something happened to me. I started hanging around with people that my mother had warned us to stay away from. Our family beliefs were different than theirs. We had been taught good from bad, right from wrong. All were good Godly teachings and instructions. All these helped develop our conscience. We were aware of God and His way. When I rebelled against them, the other side was waiting. These other friends didn’t have a soft and clear conscience. They didn’t know right from wrong. They took delight in doing and saying wrong things. To me, a rebellious child, it tasted like honey. Even in doing these things my conscience would condemn me. I soon was in a trap and couldn’t get out. I wanted to stop drinking and partying, but I couldn’t. I did the same things my daddy did. I left my family; I was willfully enslaved to my wrong doing. I have seen my own children do the same things. Slavery is hard work. It’s hard to do wrong and it’s hard to try to do right. Soon a slave wears out, he either dies or he is sold to another. Helplessness sets in and emptiness follows. God gave me freewill to choose my own way, my unknown choice was slavery. If we choose to love good we are a slave to nothing. If we choose bad, we are a slave to everything. Our children will love what we love.
When worn out and useless, my masters and friends abandoned me. In my worst state of worthlessness, Jesus “Called in His slave”. I was a worthless slave and He took me when nobody else would have me. He knew that gratefulness would put meat on my bones. It did and still does. All slavery is built on the foundation of deception. It didn’t start in the eighteen hundreds America, it started in the Garden of Eden. Satan hates good and God loves it. Satan talked Adam and Eve into doing wrong. It tasted like honey, and then slavery set in. They were naked and unashamed, but now a new sense came called shame. Their consciences condemned their action, producing shame. Every wrong now had a result and none was good.
Slavery is hard work. There is an old Tennessee Ford song that holds so true called “16” tons. The chorus goes like this. “You load sixteen tons, what do you get. Another day older and deeper in dept. Saint Peter don’t you call me cause I can’t go. I owe my soul to the company store”.
In America today, there are free people and there are slaves. It just looks different than before. As individuals there is freedom and slavery. Then there are whole groups of the same. One is fighting to enslave people and the other is fighting to stay free and to free others. I say this about freedom, because it is Godly and good. Slavery is evil and godless. Cut and dyed, in America there is a legal document that stands between our God given birthrights, freedom and those we choose to govern us. It’s called the Constitution. It restricts the government from changing or denying our God given rights and freedom. Freedom means, free men under the Dominion of God’s Government.
We have two prominent political parties in America today, the Democratic and the Republican Parties. Both are going through a great shaking right now. The Rep. Party is giving way and realizing their fault. The Dem. Party is doubling down to stay the same. They both will never be the same again. The Rep. Party is becoming the party of a free people and the Dem. is the party of slavery. I have seen both respond to the shaking of God. I have seen the Rep. respond by the hardest and give way to God. I have seen the Dem. party laugh at the mention of God’s name. The Democratic Party is the largest single slaver in our land. The company store is open for business. Cheap goods and giveaways and votes keep their lights on. Are the slaves tired yet? Some have been a slave so long they don’t even know how to spell the word freedom.
God has only blessed America because we were His freed people. A free people are His people. In my years I have seen blessings fade and troubles come. I have seen free people become slaves, but now I see a ground swell of free people rising up. God’s love for us alone is doing this. It is not over for our land. God is “Calling in the Slaves”. What have we fallen prey to and become a slave to. Our group of free people will grow until our land loves good and hates evil again. When America will bless God, then God will bless America. Some have this backwards.
PS: Learn to recognize the slavers by what they offer you.
David McClary
Avoicefromthemountain.com
