Unnamed No More: God's Call for Hidden Women

We think if we don't show up, it's, oh, well, I just don't feel No, baby. You gotta realize we in this thing together. And sometimes, it's your smile. Sometimes, it's your touch. Sometimes, it's your, hey, how you doing? No, how you really doing? Sometimes, it's your, are you okay that will make the difference in somebody else's life because God never saves us just for us. God saves us so that we can be in the saving business to help somebody else make it along. I'm done this morning. This is the word of God for the people of God. Don't you leave here unnamed. [01:35:51] (46 seconds)  #ShowUpForEachOther

And, the message we receive here is that the most interpretive interpretation of sacred truth just might show up in packaging that you least expect from a place you would not frequent in a form that you never considered. That's why you gotta be careful that you can't write people off just because they don't look like much right now. You can't write somebody off just because they don't smell right right now. You you can't write somebody off just because they don't have the church closed right now. God just may be preparing them and using them to do some things that everybody else that's all perfumed up, all coiffed and got it together may not ever be able to do. You came right nobody else off. [01:22:42] (55 seconds)  #GiftsComeUnexpectedly

Notice though, in a time when it was unusual for a woman to have a position like this, notice these five men went and sought her out. Hulda did not go to the palace, the palace came to her. She didn't campaign for the pulpit. The pulpit found her in in the kitchen, found her in the neighborhood, found her in the ordinary Thursday of her unremarkable life. And, when they knocked on her door, she did not stammer. She did not say, are you sure y'all want me? [01:05:55] (37 seconds)  #CalledFromTheKitchen

He was a good king and who did not stray from the ways of the Lord, not turning to the right or the left. And, because he cared about the things of God, he assigned the workers to begin restoring the temple, sparing no expense. During their restoration though, here's what happened and where the tension begins, somebody discovered the Torah scroll that had apparently been stashed inside the walls and forgotten. When they brought the scroll to the king, he read it, but was not clear on all of its meaning. He knew enough to become greatly disturbed by what he read, but he didn't know enough to really understand everything it meant. [01:03:58] (43 seconds)  #TheScrollRevealed

During their restoration though, here's what happened and where the tension begins, somebody discovered the Torah scroll that had apparently been stashed inside the walls and forgotten. When they brought the scroll to the king, he read it, but was not clear on all of its meaning. He knew enough to become greatly disturbed by what he read, but he didn't know enough to really understand everything it meant. He knew enough that he tore his clothes and dethroned himself, knew enough to fear the wrath of God that was to come because of what was written in the scroll, but because the ancestors had not kept their words. [01:04:14] (42 seconds)  #TruthDemandsRepentance

And, there's something about ginger snaps that took me all the way back to Concord, Virginia down to my grandmama's house where she used to keep that little brown bag with a smiley face with a tongue hanging out. And, all of my grandmama's strength came through those ginger snaps that Doris gave me that day, unwittingly baked the night before, but I believe God knew that I was gonna need some ginger snaps on the next morning. And God, it's the little it doesn't have to be the big things, but do what you can do right where you are, and you just may change somebody else's life. [01:37:49] (38 seconds)  #SmallGesturesBigImpact

And, let me say early on, before you write me off, thinking I'm bashing the brothers or hating on the men, I am not. I love the brothers. I love the tall brothers. I love the short brothers. I love the intelligent brothers. I love the brothers. Chocolate, caramel, mocha, buttercream, freckled, nappy headed, slick headed, dapper gentlemen with just a little bit of thug in them kind of brothers. I love the brothers. My husband is a brother. My nephew is a brother. I honor the brothers on this women's day. So, I don't even want a world I don't want to live in a world without the brothers. But, I confess that I believe it's the sisters who one day will save the world. [00:58:52] (53 seconds)  #SistersWillSaveTheWorld