Dr. King on the Mountain

There is an intimate, prophetic link between the ancient Hebrew liberator, Moses. . . and the 2oth-century liberator, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:

They both had a mountaintop inspiration from the Lord. . . an experience in which a prophetic vision was imparted to the prophet: a vision which opened the way for deliverance of God's people from enslavement, or deliverance from a slave mentality.

Many years ago, I wrote and recorded a song about these two prophets, and a mountain-climbing experience that I had related to their respective visionary treks up the rocky path of divine inspiration.

"Mountaintop" words are shown below.

If you care to hear the sung version, you can listen to it at Josh's YouTube site: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3hQNMr0A48    

Or you can hear the song from my website, linked here at the bottom, below these words:

Well I walked out; I walked out to Pisgah mountain

Well ole Martin Luther King; he’d been up to the mountaintop

and I wanted to see what he had seen.

And ole Moses—he’d been up to the mountaintop

and I wanted to see what he had seen.

When I reached the top of Pisgah mountain

what did I see? I saw a promised land

just waitin’ for me, and waitin’ for all of ye.

Well I walked down from the mountain and into the town

Well ole Martin Luther King—he’d been to see the big man

and I wanted to see what he had seen.

And ole Moses—he’d been to see the Pharoah.

Yeah, he’d been up there and I wanted to see what he had seen.

The promised land is what you make it to be.

Struggle to unwind your unconstant state of mind.

Just take a walk up the mountain, my friend

and you will see.

What goes on down in that dirty old town

is bound to be.

You can make up your mind, my friend

and you can make it up good.

Are you looking for the promised land

or are you dying, are you dying in a wasteland.

‘cause I may be asking you now; I may be asking you:

Are you looking for the promised land?

And what you gonna say

when my Lord comes on that day.

‘cause I may be asking you now; I may be asking you.

But someday, Lord, yeah, He’s gonna ask you too

And what you gonna say when my Lord

comes on that day?

Glass half-Full