This Ain't Love

In different cultures throughout the world, love is more than a word, emotion, or felling. Love is an action word that exudes from one person to another. Not for personal gain or to say to others, "I've done this or that for somebody else." Love is a gift, something like a gift of life, to others; giving them the power to go on in an imperfect world. Love is a man who tries his hardest to do right by his wife and children. Love is a friend ensuring that she never double crosses her friend in spite of what other lames have said (especially when it comes to her friend's past and faults). Love is saying you will look out for the homeless when you are elected into a prominent office and actually stay true to your word when it happens. Love is actually loving someone else who looks different and even smells different than you when you say you serve the God that is love. But c'mon son (like Ed Lover), we're living in a day and age when the love is something love. Love is now seeing a chick in the club, spit a few words, and then "shoot up her club" for a full 3 minutes. Then 7 months later, she's calling you to tell that she's pregnant with your kid and that word you flew out there to get what you wanted at that particular moment means nothing. Love is now abandoning your friends because you believe in the words of some liar that is ruining your friend's reputation. Love isn't talking about your "loved one's" problems during "for your eyes only" conversations to the whole world and then smile in their face like nothing happened. Now other people are looking at that same person crazy because of your fake loving self. Hmmm.... This isn't love. Love definitely isn't using Jesus' name to manipulate someone to build up your image, financial status, and "power"and then "emasculates" anyone who shares a different opinion (usually is brought up when they understand the true meaning of the Bible for themselves). Love causes people to say I'm sorry if they have offended someone without trying to sweep the wrongdoing under the rug. It's actually taking the time to break the situation down with the person they've offended in humility and admit they are wrong (for a change). I hope you all hear what I'm saying. We have to know what true love is and is not; thereby pursue to walk in the true image and action of love. Many of us, if not all of us, are going to experience true love and fake love. On the job, in the church, in a mosque, in political offices, or in the music industry. So I encourage you, know the difference and teach what the true meaning of love in the sight of God is all about. Manipulative, sadistic, religious, greedy, controlling, and lying people that control as such don't know love. But you who strive to not become this way know what true love is.

Til next time, my friends, words from "The Ventilator"

References:
Bizzle This Ain't Love: http://youtu.be/AjstnrQL7jY
1st Corinthians 13
Matthew 7:15-20 (to sum it all up, determine who's real and who's fake)

Be What We Say & Do

hypocrite: a person who indulges in hypocrisy. 

hypocrisy: the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one'sown behavior does not conform; pretense.

In street terms, a rat, fake, poker face, not keeping it 100, not keeping it real, a two-face, you do the math. 

Hypocrisy is one of the worst poisons disrupting the world today. Hypocrisy leads people astray. It manipulates the truth, it gives people a disfigured version of the truth, and it's just a big ol' lie. We should already know that God loves everybody but He doesn't much care for hypocrisy (along with any other sin). Even the gangster street hustler hates hypocrisy because hypocrisy breeds ulterior motives. Hypocrisy is like telling somebody you love them in their face but deep inside your heart you want to put a gun to their face. Hypocrisy is saying we do all these good works like feeding the hungry or pray for others but deep inside we're trying to gain acceptance and prestige amongst others. Hypocrisy is saying and doing one thing in front of a lot of people; mostly done to gain attention and to keep others from seeing our other side. Hypocrisy is making ourselves to be something better than the next man based on gender, creed, race, and class status when inside we're filled with nothing more than gutter trash. Hypocrisy is a dangerous thing. Hypocrisy creates within us a since of pride; kind of make of us feel like we're untouchable. Hypocrisy makes people become untrustworthy and causes people to watch their back a lot more than what they would normally do. Hypocrisy influences people to always fix everyone else except for themselves. Hypocrisy keeps all record of wrong and influences people to say I have no flaws (sin, perfect, like a god). We can claim to be this and that but what do our lives really say about us? I remember my grandma used to say, "if walls could tell." What would the walls of our homes (lives) really tell? We say we pray but our attitude is still shifty. We say we love God but we hate the pastor over us who's giving us the truth in love. We do all these things but it's just to please men and not God. Dude, that's a hypocrisy. I know it for myself and that's why we've got to keep ourselves looking at the mirror. The mirror is going to show us the true nature of our being, whether we're real or fake. Our mirror is the Word of God, our friends, our bosses, our enemies, our children, the dude we pass by when we're walking through Wally Word (Walmart). What do they see? Are they see in realness or fakeness? When speak, can people resonate with what we're saying or do they hearing us faking? When Jesus spoke, He spoke with authority and the people believed on Him. They saw within His life authenticity, realness, pureness, and no hypocrisy. The same couldn't be said about the Pharisees. They loved to be in the high places. They made long prayers glorifying themselves rather than humbling themselves before God's sight. They taught and made others do things they wouldn't do. This was hypocrisy and it's alive and well today. I truly it's time we be real with ourselves and be real with God. We got to ask ourselves, am I a hypocrite? Do I do and say things but do the contrary? Am I trustworthy? Does my life in spite of my faults say I'm a real person? Am I doing all these good works to please men or to please God? Something to think about, huh? I know I am. So before I close this out, this is all I have to say. Let's stop faking around and be honest. Hypocrisy hurts others and keeps us from coming to God with all our broken pieces. Walking in truth ain't popular because it gets passed good feelings and gets down to the nitty gritty. It's better for people to hate you but respect you because you're walking. It's a shame for everybody to like you but don't respect you from the case of being a hypocrite. So let's give the gig up and walk honestly. 

Til next time, dgwo. 

Reference:

Proverbs 11:9

Matthew 7:28-29

Matthew 23 (in its entirety)