Get Off the Plantation-The Movement

This week has been mentally a trying one with the amount of violence that has rocked my hometown as of late. The most frustrating part tho, is far too many people are still on the plantation. Yes, in the 21st century people are still enslaved: by apathy, by fear, by myopic outlooks, by sin, by the illusions of this world ( money, car, clothes, and hoes is all a ninja knows!) , by a whole bunch of stuff. As Steven Biko ( look dude up, he was a giant-slayer) said, " The Greatest Weapon in the hand of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." Real talk, this plantation mindset and the enslavement to ourselves and our own desires is the only way that the enemey has been able to keep our generation enslaved.

So how/where can people go to get off this plantation? The answer suprisingly is to go to another one. Yea, Paul talks about it in Romans 6. He talks about how we were once slaves to sin ( or fir, or selfish desires, or thinking that tells us that we cannot change dark circumstances) but then we can become by becoming a slave of righteousness and Christ. ( a do-gooder slavery...see post 2) So this plantation movement is a movement off the plantation of self and/or fear and to the plantation of God. It's a wierd paradigm, especially as black people, to want to be slaves. But that's the only way to be liberated. Becoming a slave to love, to righteousness, to doing right, to using our gifts and talents, to do whatever it is that we can do to create change.

So a giant-slayer must not only tackle the huge problems facing our generation, but they must also serve as liberators. Real Harriet Tubman with it. The same Holy Spirit that enables you to kill the Goaliths facing our generation, must be the same Holy Spirit that allows you to liberate our peers. This liberation is ability to be FREE from the limits of man ( with God there is nothing impossible, I can do ALL things with Christ) and FREE from the wages of sin (death.)

After all, that's what Jesus came to do. He said ( Luke 4:18) , "the Spirit of the Lord is upon me know..for He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives, to set the oppressed free."

And Yea fam, our generation is enslaved to a lot of things. Plantation mentailty for sure. But We gotta start the Get off the plantation movement.

Who the Son sets free, is free indeed.

Thoughts?

Tubbs