Hebrews 4: 14-16 (links validated 9/3/24a)

In part of his terrific biography of Lyndon Johnson entitled, Master of the Senate, Robert Caro writes about the compassion the former American President displayed as a Senator. Johnson’s compassion was, however, only the palest imitation of Jesus’ compassion. After all, as Caro notes, “During Lyndon Johnson’s previous political life, compassion had constantly been in conflict with ambition, and invariably ambition had won. Given the imperatives of his nature, in [the civil rights] conflict, it had been inevitable that the ambition would win. “For the compassion to be released, it would have to be compatible with the ambition, pointing in the same direction. And now, at last, in 1957, it was … Power reveals. The compassion that had been hidden would be revealed now — in full. Did those sixteen million [black] Americans need a mighty champion in the halls of government. They were about to get one.”

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