Parked in the Right Spot December first 1955 could have been a typical day but because the right person with the right character was in the right place at the right time, it was a day that changed the nation.
When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man that demanded it, she was physically tired from a long day of work but she was spiritually and emotionally full of enough strength to push America out of the stone age of racism we had so long lived in.
The rest of Rosa’s story is history...her arrest and trial, a 381-day Montgomery Alabama bus boycott and the Supreme Court's ruling in November 1956 that segregation on transportation is unconstitutional. Sometimes heroes come in small packages and her fight was not just for her race but also for everyone that is in love with what is right and hates what’s wrong.
I thank God that Rosa didn’t miss that bus. As sorry as I am for what she went through, I am so grateful that it was she on that bus in 1955. Everything changed because the right person was at the right place at the right time.
Willing and Able Because She Was Stable
She was able to do what God had destined her to do because she was willing to be who God had called her to be. Her character and strength put her into that world changing bus seat.
Parks' belief in God and her religious convictions are at the core of everything she did. It was the overriding theme of her book and the message she wanted to impart.
"I'd like for people to know that I had a very spiritual background and that I believe in church and my faith and that has helped to give me the strength and courage to live as I did."
The Brewer salutes you Rosa, and thanks God for you.
People of all races are amazing; they want the front of the bus, the middle of the road, and the back of the church. They want to push others out of the way to jockey themselves into positions of greatness but truth be told, your obedience to God will put you in amazing places that you couldn’t set up on your own with a million dollars.
Tea and Crumpets
On my 2nd mission trip to Uganda east Africa, my wife and I had a typical 16-hour layover in London England. We took a train into downtown and ran around gawking at all things British.
Standing on the side of a busy London street and trying to make myself look right instead of left, I saw a police escort coming down the road towards me. There was a pretty good traffic jam that caused the entourage to stop right where Leanna and I were standing. Distracted by the obnoxious English siren, I finally looked into the back seat of the limousine closest to me. And there, not five feet away sat the flip’in queen of England.
I couldn’t believe it. She made eye contact with me and nearly putting my mouth on the window glass I yelled, “Hey Queen Elizabeth, Jesus loves you! As guards began to pour out of cars to beat up the foreigner that was yelling at their monarch, the traffic began to move and off she went.
Watching them drive away, I held my wife’s hand and muttered, “That was the Queen, Leanna. I just got to preach to the Queen.”
A short sermon yes, but it was the best I could come up with for the time I had to put it together. You see, my obedience in going to the orphanage in Uganda placed me on the street corner in England. and I thought about it all the way from London to Entebbe.
Something to Sip On
This week’s sip from the Master’s cup perks something like this; You will only do the great things God has called you to do if you are willing to be the person He has called you to be. Your character and your destiny go hand in hand. Your submission to the Lord in everyday life lands you in the right place at the right time for the right miracle to happen. God’s word to us truly is directing us to much greater things.
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path. Psalms 119:105
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