Article July 2, 2012 Issue

The quest for liberty

with contributions from Gloria Onyuru, Helga Knispel, Edna Watson, Joseph Kamenju, Joyce Milgaard, Norman Hutchinson, Patricia Wilson, MarySue Harris

To scan today’s newspaper reports is to find that the struggle for liberty is as lively a topic today as it was on July 4, 1776, when Americans of the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. Recently, Egyptians voted in the country’s first ever competitive presidential race, and other countries in the Arab world continue their own quests for freedom.

It’s not too much of a stretch to go back in time to the children of Israel who were led out of Egypt by Moses, a man of God. The accounts of their journey to freedom are gripping—a sea actually parting to let them go through, food and water divinely provided in the wilderness, the ability to overcome opponents in battle when they crossed over into the Promised Land. Yet these outward elements are only the window dressing for what was really going on: the revelation of the one God and the Ten Commandments to humanity.

That divine law laid a framework for Christ Jesus’ revolutionary teaching and ministry. The thousands who came to hear him preach learned that this was no hillside philosophy but a teaching with the power to heal, to supply food, and to lift humanity to a clearer concept of good. 

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