She made me mad, refusing to do what she knew she was supposed to do. I was there to help her and she wanted to lay there and take a nap. How could my mama refuse my help and to do what she knew would benefit her? That was Friday afternoon. Then late that evening, as I was climbing into bed and just then remembering that I had never gotten to my Bible study lesson that day, I wondered why I hadn’t done what I knew would benefit me. Funny how your words will come back to haunt you, pin you down and make you cry uncle, surrender to the fact that you ain’t all that and you spiritually stink sometimes, too.

This was my personal revelation, but my Christian brother Timashion Jones made all his Facebook friends reflect on how we spiritually stink and needed help being brought out of that funk (a challenge that he got from our pastor, Christopher W. Brooks). He said that while we are saying that we are Trayvon Martin, stereotyped, mistreated and suffering from injustice, we should be saying that we are Martin’s killer, George Zimmerman: “…(I)n light of the Gospel we are really ‘George Zimmerman’ (Mark 7:20-23). We all need a Savior! Yeah we all want justice thats (sic) deserved but do WE all want the Justice (sic) that WE deserved.” And with that, I paused, saw his point and considered asking God to have mercy on Zimmerman, who still, because of God’s law of sowing and reaping and submission to authority, has great consequences coming to him for hunting and killing an unarmed child. But in light of the Gospel, how do you feel about Jones’ statement that “we are really ‘George Zimmerman’”? Please, tell me what you think.