Too Short - on knowledge?
By Andy Denton on Friday, June 30, 2006 - 7:28 pm
Too Short! The Ghetto.
Gotta love this song. Classic hip-hop, straight from the streets. 
Why you gotta act like someone else?
All you gotta do is be yourself…
Never be ashamed of what you are…
Even tho some people give you no respect
Be intelligent when you put ‘em in check.
Cause when you’re ignorant you get treated that way.
And when they throw you in jail you got nothin’ to say.
So if you don’t listen, it’s not my fault
I’ll be getting paid, and you’ll be paying the cost…
I don’t know if it’s blasphemous to quote Too Short and the Bible in the same post - or even the same blog - but, here goes… (Lord, please forgive).
Too Short says something that rings true. Proverbs 15:6-15 tells us that..
The lips of the wise spread knowledge, not so the heart of fools…
The discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of a fool feeds on folly.
I believe the Lord wants us to be wise with knowledge. He wants us to have faith in Him, for He says…
Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves.
But, he also wants this faith and commitment in Him to be wise with knowledge. A great example of this is in Romans 10, where Paul wrote the following:
Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved. For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. Since they did not know the righteousness that comes from God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
It is my belief, and my understanding of the word of God, that Christ came to Earth for a simple purpose. And He himself explains this in Mark 10:45.
For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Jesus was hear on Earth to serve. To lay down his life. To be the ransom, the price required to free mankind from sin. He walked the streets, He ate and drank with thousands, He preached his gospel, and performed miracles in plain sight of others. He was here as a witness to His divinity, and to that of our God in Heaven.
I feel this is an important call by our Lord. He asks us to believe in Him, have faith in Him, follow Him, and to love Him with all of our heart, our soul and our strength. While at the same time, to ensure our faith is guided and that we are following His gospel, we are directed to ensure that our faith is one of knowledge. What is it that you believe?
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