THAT'S NOT IMPRESSIVE

THAT’S NOT IMPRESSIVE

April 28, 2021

Have you ever heard of someone accomplish a feat that isn’t all that impressive? That’s how I feel when people say they read the bible in full. It sounds good and maybe its kinda cool that you read such an immersive book in its entirety, but real talk you don’t get any points for that. I always thought about that rumor that Abraham Lincoln read the entire bible from front and back. I never questioned it back then but now I think of it like “ok what are we supposed to do with that information.”

Everything we was taught in school portrayed Abe Lincoln as a saint but I don’t know about that beloved.

Here’s why reading the bible in its entirety is NOT impressive. The Holy Bible is not your regular book. Its not about a hero’s journey (although some of that is applicable), its not the traditional beginning-middle-end narrative, and its not some science fiction book trying to capture your wildest imaginations. The Bible is a true, instructional book, that is meant to be read NUMEROUS times, not in any particular order. Reading in full means nothing if you don’t read for understanding.

The Bible is a never ending well that you continuously draw from. Before you read you’re supposed to pray for the ability to understand what you read and pray that the words speak to you with full clarity. That is why people read the Bible and then afterwards be like “man what the heck was that about”. It’s because they treated it like Harry Potter instead of a literal life source that gives instructions on how to live through ancient scripture.

If the King James version is too hard for you to understand at the time, you can always try a different translation.

When you read the Bible you should be thinking, How can I internalize this in my heart? What is God trying to say here? What do this story actually mean? How do these principles impact my life? What was the intent behind this? If you don’t feel like the Bible can actually teach you something, it’s no point of reading it. I can understand how people can have random goals like “read the bible completely”.

Nothing is wrong with that I can get how it can be cool to accomplish that and I understand the idea of doing stuff just because you can do it. My problem is don’t think you deserve a cookie or a pat on the back for doing something that really didn’t benefit you because you didn’t have the right heart state behind your actions.

So if reading the bible from front to back is on your to-do-list I’m not telling you to scratch it off. I’m telling you when you accomplish this task (congrats in advance) don’t pop out thinking anyone will be astonished or impressed, because what you did is NOT impressive beloved.

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GOD ALWAYS HAVE YOU HEARING AND SEEING STUFF AT A CERTAIN TIME.

In life it feels like God lays out helpful tips at certain checkpoints in your life. Almost like a video game of some sorts. It’s akin to how you’ll reach a certain point in the video game and come across a box filled with goodies that will help you further in the game. During and after Law School I started to realize that God was allowing me to hear things at a certain time for a reason.

I. I HEARD THIS RIGHT ON TIME

First, I remember God allowing me to hear a conversation about a young lady needing to have a credit card. She didn’t have any money before our school refund hit and her apartment complex required the first month’s rent before she moved in. Low on her luck the young lady was told that she should probably apply for a credit card real quick to cover her expense. At that time it was just a random story amongst peers passing time between classes.

Soon after I was in a financially challenging predicament. After nearly coming with blows with one of my unruly roommates, I had to move in with my girlfriend temporarily. In the twilight of the semester with little to no funds, I didn’t even know how I would survive the next couple months. Suddenly I recalled the conversation with the young lady. I went to my credit union and requested a credit card. Thank God almighty I was approved and my financial woes were eliminated for the rest of that term. To this day I still have that credit card and its been assisting me in my fiscal responsibility.

II. I SAW THIS AT THE RIGHT TIME

One of my favorite activities is exercising. I love to exercise outside and get that sun radiating on me. I feel like Superman receiving from the sun gaining superpowers or something lol. One day I was returning from running and an Amazon Delivery man was trying to get into the backdoor. I opened up the door for the young brother but I thought to myself, “This is kinda odd Amazon deliveries usually come to the front”. However I shrugged it off and didn’t think nothing else of it.

Sure enough I put my prime account to use to order some storage for my art supplies ( I still need more its ridiculous beloved) and I was anxiously awaiting my package. I received a message saying my package was delivered but I did not see it out front. Now my apartment complex is pretty good when it come to theft issues, packages literally sat outside all day with no one touching them. I said “I no people ain’t starting to steal packages now”. I was stuck in confusion until I recalled seeing that Amazon driver on that running day. I hurried to the backdoor and lord behold there was my package! I was like man it really was meant for me to see my guy that day, I would’ve never thought to check here!

III. CONCLUSION

Pay attention to those conversations or occurrences that seem little in significance. Everything literally happen for a reason and the smallest thing from the past could be of great help to the biggest thing in your present!

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GUITAR RIFF

GUITAR RIFF

Let me start by say how much I love my internship. Man I love my internship. Anyways, working in a courthouse is starting to feel like I’m in the big game.

Slash rockin’ out

While I’m watching hearings and talking to Judges & Attorneys, it hit me that I finally got to the fun part, just like learning to play a guitar.

Anyone who has learned or has an interest to learn how to play the guitar, knows you can’t come out the gate riffing like Slash.

You have to learn notes, chords, how to read music, all the monotonous basics before you can solo Welcome to The Jungle at max power.

Just like in law school, you start with the most basic core classes and work your way up.

Now that I’m in my last term it feels as though I’ve finally “worked my way up”.

Now I get the incomparable experience of actually being in the courtroom and my basic foundations are assisting in that experience.

Seeing opening statements triggers my mock trial experience, writing memos for my judge leads me to recall my research & writing class, so on and so forth.

Life gets pretty amazing but only after a solid foundation has been built then you can go on to have the most epic solo of your life!

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CHOOSE A SIDE

CHOOSE A SIDE

CONFRONTATION IS A TWO PLAYER GAME

 In most cases it is natural for us to react to anyone that may try to get us riled up. We instantly feel the need to go tit for tat when someone attempts to disrespect us. What most of us fail to realize is that we get to choose rather or not what the offender does actually offends us or not. Situations like these remind me of when you get ready to play a game of 2K with someone .

 When you bring up an exhibition game of 2K each player has to choose a side ,if a player fails to choose a side then the other player ends up playing by themselves. Much like if someone fails to react to someone messing with them the other person is bound to be stuck with themselves because they did not get the reaction they were hoping for. 

 A lot of people like to play games but they’re not much fun to play when you have to play them with yourself. Next time when faced with a situation of agitation and unwanted disturbance think twice before you give attention to a game you do not desire to play.

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