Harnessing and Remembering The Strength Of Harriet Tubman
Deuteronomy 19:14
You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, which was set up by your ancestors to mark the inheritance you shall receive in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
Admiration
When looking at the story of Harriet Tubman there is so much to admire especially when it comes to her strength. She is my number one female inspiration. When ever I go through tough times, I remember Harriet Tubman and all that she went through to be a free woman.
I think her strength is beautiful. She went through so much because she was black. Harriet Tubman is the original OG! In history they had put a bounty on her in Maryland and the police officers chased her and tried to have her arrested and whipped. Though they try to lie and say that the bounty never happened, it did happen. The person who did it was Eliza Brodess, and her brothers Ben and Harry. So that part of history, they try to erase but God knows the truth. There was a racially motivated hunt for Harriet Tubman.
Overcoming Betrayal
What is interesting about her story, is how much you have to have strength to obey God. Because though she was running away from slavery, it was some of the blacks that were also slaves that turned on her and reported her to the monstrous slave owners , and one was Harriet Tubman own husband (John Tubman). John Tubman, though they say he was “free”, in his mind he was enslaved because he would have rather stayed bound than following freedom.
Some historical articles even claim that her own blood brothers (Ben and Harry allegedly), went back to slavery; told on Harriet and then forcibly Harriet had to temporarily return. However, she then left and escaped to freedom thus crafting The Underground Railroad.
Trust In God
Though Harriet Tubman was enslaved, abused, and mistreated by racist whites in Maryland. Through her travels she met religious whites known as “Quakers” who helped her to be free because of their belief system in God and The Holy Bible.
That must have been a surreal moment for Harriet Tubman and she really had to trust and let go of what she thought was right, and rightly follow God. Because blacks on the slave plantations in Maryland did not support her (some did), but it was the white Quakers in Delaware and in Pennsylvania.
With that being said, put no limitations on who you connect with because of the complexion of your skin. Despite systems in place, I believe that God loves all ethnicities. We cannot allow the racism of Nazi’s in enforcement sectors influence how we think as Christian’s and as the body of Christ. Instead, we are to be unified and to love one another because that is what Jesus would do.
Minister Precious-Diamond Chessier
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