{"id":14161,"date":"2016-05-06T19:40:09","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T19:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.watchmanmedia.org\/?p=14161"},"modified":"2022-02-20T19:04:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T19:04:33","slug":"harriet-tubman-money-resisting-evil-trusting-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/?p=14161","title":{"rendered":"Harriet Tubman on Resisting Evil & Trusting God"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Harriet\"<\/span><\/p>\n

How do we resist evil? One woman\u2019s approach was on the money. And soon, she will be, too.<\/span><\/p>\n

When you open your wallet in few years, you may be seeing something different on the $20 bill: The U.S. Treasury Department is proposing to take President Andrew Jackson off the front of the bill and replace him with one of my personal heroes: Harriet Tubman.<\/p>\n

She is someone we should celebrate for what she did\u2014rescue slaves\u2014and for the lessons she teaches us today about when it\u2019s appropriate to resist evil.<\/p>\n

Harriet Tubman was born into slavery on a Maryland plantation in 1822. As she grew up, she was made to work driving oxen, trapping muskrats in the woods, and as a nursemaid.<\/p>\n

Harriet\u2019s owners frequently whipped her. And she endured the pain of seeing three of her sisters sold, never to be seen again. But when her owner tried to sell one of her brothers, Harriet\u2019s mother openly rebelled. The would-be buyer gave up after Harriet\u2019s mother told him, \u201cThe first man that comes into my house, I will split his head open.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her mother\u2019s actions likely implanted in Harriet the idea that resistance to evil was right\u2014and could sometimes be successful.<\/p>\n

As a child, Harriet herself revealed a strong rebellious streak. She would run away for days at a time. But there were rays of joy in her life, as well. Harriet\u2019s mother told her stories from the Bible, which developed in her a deep and abiding faith in God.<\/p>\n

When Harriet was about 26 years old, she learned that she might be sold away from her family. The time had come to try to escape. She made her way some ninety miles along the Underground Railroad. She traveled at night to avoid slave catchers, following the North Star, until she reached Pennsylvania, and freedom.<\/p>\n

Once there, she dared to make a dangerous decision: She risked her own freedom in order to give others theirs.<\/p>\n

For eight years, as America headed toward the cauldron of Civil War, she made many dangerous trips back to Maryland, leading scores of slaves north to freedom. During these trips she relied upon God to guide and protect her. She never once lost a runaway slave. As Harriet herself later put it, \u201cI never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.\u201d<\/p>\n

She gave all the credit to God, explaining, \u201c\u2019Twant me, \u2018twas the Lord. I always told him, \u2018I trusts to you. I don\u2019t know where to go or what to do, but I expect you to lead me,\u2019 and he always did.\u201d<\/p>\n

No wonder she was known as Moses to her people.<\/p>\n

Her faith deeply impressed others. As abolitionist Thomas Garrett put it, \u201cI never met with any person of any color who had more confidence in the voice of God, as spoken direct to her soul.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the Civil War, Harriet worked for the Union as a scout, spy, cook, and nurse to wounded and sick soldiers. Amazingly, she even led an armed assault on Southern plantations, during which 750 slaves were rescued. In later years, Harriet donated property to be turned into a home for indigent former slaves.<\/p>\n

She was an incredible woman\u2014one we can and should celebrate and emulate. Today there still is, sad to say, plenty of evil that needs resisting. For instance, we\u2019re increasingly facing the demands of bullies that we embrace laws and opinions that contradict the teachings of God. Who knows, like Harriet, we may be called upon to move to another state\u2014one that puts a proper value on religious freedom. Or we may have to go to court to protect our First Amendment rights\u2014or help others to do so.<\/p>\n

When we lose heart fighting these battles, we should remember Harriet Tubman\u2019s unflinching courage and unfailing faith in God\u2019s guidance\u2014and redouble our efforts to protect our own generation from efforts to enslave, not our bodies, but our heart and minds and souls.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Copyright 2016 Breaking Point \u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Image courtesy of Ms Magazine<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Afterword:<\/span><\/p>\n

Garland Favorito writing for the NewsWithViews.com<\/a><\/span> says there was another reason why <\/span>Andrew Jackson was\u00a0 targeted for removal from the $20 Bill….<\/span><\/p>\n

To help justify the removal of Andrew Jackson from the face of the $20 bill, elitists played the classic Marxist race and gender cards. To gain support from women and minorities, only women were considered and Harriett Tubman was selected to replace Jackson. Harriett Tubman certainly deserves to be honored for her place in history but not by removing the most fiscally sound President in American history and the most distinguished American General other than George Washington himself. It is especially ironic that Treasury Secretary Jack Lew would attempt to remove Jackson from the $20 bill even though he could never achieve the fiscal accomplishments of Andrew Jackson much less his statesman and military accomplishments….<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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