750: The 36’30 Line // Spiritual Lessons from Abe Lincoln's America 01 (Eric Ludy)
This is the very first episode in Eric Ludy’s winter Daily Thunder series that dives into the unstable season of American history known as the Antebellum period (1815-1861). It’s a season oddly similar to the season we now find ourselves in as a nation. We may not be Abe Lincoln, and we may never get the assignment of President of the United States, but that doesn’t mean we can’t find a similitude. Like Lincoln, we need to navigate a tumultuous age with wisdom and dexterity — learning to remain unspotted by the world and yet reach that world for Jesus Christ simultaneously. To do this, Lincoln learned to not draw hard lines but loving lines — a lesson of which each of us ought to take note. The 36’30 line was a hard line drawn by northern politicians that led to the Civil War. Meanwhile, the Cross was a loving line that, still to this day, leads to abundant life. Let’s draw our lines well.