"Who dat?"

"Who dat? say Who dat? when I say Who dat?"  It started many years ago as an oft told joke of some old roguish boy caught in a hen house stealing chickens.  Black folks used to be famous for stealing chickens.  I heard that joke many times as a child.  The last time I heard a version of it was in the form or a chant by the New Orleans Saints.

When I hear the expression "Who dat?" I immediately picture some unfortunate culprit caught some place he has no business.  We can all easily get caught in places we have no business.  Who among us has not been led astray?  coaxed into captivity?

When you wake up one day and realize that you did wrong, be quick to forgive yourself, to repent.  It is alright.  You are human.  You are subject to human frailties.  "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man; but GOD is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it." (1 Corinthians 10:13)

Lets say you fell low.  So low that you are deeply ashamed to admit that you did what you did.  Don't waste your time and brilliance scheming up a way to get out of your trouble.  You can't erase your deed with back lies and intimidation.  Mocking, ridiculing, insulting, intimidating and abusing your accuser only makes that foul deed worse.  You end up sucking all the joy out of your life.  You become paranoid and distrustful.  You have to tell a thousand lies to cover that original lie.  Your paranoia becomes sick hatred.  You can't trust anyone because you can't trust yourself.

You can trust GOD.  You can trust His Grace and Mercy.  Pray to embrace the Truth.  Don't worry about people talking about you. People are going to talk about you.  They talked about Jesus.  People are going to hate you.  They hated Jesus.

Put your hand in the hand of the man that calmed the waters.  That healed the sick, raised the dead, gave sight to the blind.  Pray for GOD to restore your sight today.  You have been blind for a very long time.  Yes you are ignorant.  You are ignorant enough to believe your own lies.

Stop wasting your time trying to pound your lies into the truth.  Keep clinging to your lying spineless minions. You know they are spineless because you made them that way.  You emasculated your sons from the cradle.  You ought to be ashamed of yourself.  You had no business having children.   You knew better.  You knew the boundaries you deliberately violated.

I can see you now, standing there, plaiting those huge long switches,  bellowing; "Come git 'cho beatin'!"  I thought you were crazy.  "Dis ***** must be out of hur *******  mind!" (I would say to myself) as I took off running, heading for the hills.

Time has marched around Martha.  Your life has come full circle.  Now it is time for you to come get your beating.  Come get your justice!  Come and get your "just and honest due!"  You did it to others.  What did you think?  Did you think a "lucky hand" was really going to get you off?  Do you think GOD is impressed or intimidated by your graveyard dust?

Every body is not stupid.  Don't be surprised to find out that your five sons have more manhood than you think they have.  You dismissed me as a cowardly worm for fifty-eight years.  Look what GOD did for me!

GOD finally opened my eyes, then He opened my mouth.  Now I can't shut up.  I am not going to shut up.  Maybe you can't be saved.  Maybe you are too far gone.  But somebody will be saved by my Holy Ghost message.  I know one person that sure got saved and filled with His Holy Spirit.  Me.  I'm on fire for Jesus.   It is like fire shut up in my bones!  I'm proud to tell it.

My granddaddy had it.   You couldn't shut him up either.  He's been gone since February 10, 1979, but he is still preaching, still testifying.

He lives Martha Jane.  Jerome Walters lives in my heart.  He planted his words of wisdom deep within my soul.  I can't make a decision, write a word, without remembering that great humble man.  Shame on you for taking his life.  Quit lying.  His wasn't the only life you took.  His wasn't the only life you deliberately ruined.

What did it get you? Nothing.  RUINATION! You were so hard headed, you thought you were so smart.  Did you think that you were smarter that GOD?  Do you think His book is a collection of fables and wives tales?  Are you that proud?  Surely to GOD you can't be as foolish as you pretend to be.  I told you.  GOD told you, "It is all in Divine Order."  It is GOD's dispensation, He is righting every wrong.

Praise the LORD children!  Thank Him for every blessing.  "Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." (Philippians 2:12)