The Tabor experience
Martin Luther King tells how he had his own Tabor. In the height of the struggle for civil rights for black people, one night he suddenly reached rock bottom. He felt he could not go on. He was tired of the insults and injuries.
In this state of exhaustion and despair, he threw himself on his knees before God and prayed like this:
‘Lord, I have taken a stand for what I believe is right. But now I am afraid. The people are looking to me for leadership. If I stand before them without strength and courage, they too will falter. But I am at the end of my powers. I have nothing left. I have come to the point where I can’t face it alone’.
He says that at that moment he experienced the presence of God in a way he had never experienced it before.
On the strength of that experience he was able to continue the struggle.
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