Good Morning!
Howdy potnas ;-D Heh heh. How was that extra hour of sleep on Sunday? I enjoyed that one, mmhmmm! But then I got tripped out around 5:30 when it was pitch black outside... and then I was like, "Oh yeah, it would have been 6:30 had we not kicked the time back one hour." Aight yo, on to... da Word!
checkit:
Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful.
- Paul (1 Cor. 4:2)
Ain't THAT da truth! Word! My man Paul was droppin' some knowledge in this letter to the Corinthian peeps. He was just talking about divisions in the church in the previous chapter and helping them to realize how ridiculous it was. See, the peeps were like, "Yo, I follow Paul SON!!!!!" And others were like, "Brutha pleeeeeez, I follow Applos KID!!!!" Both Paul and Apollos were apostles makin' da rounds spreadin' da word o' Pops. But these Corinthian kats started idolizing da peeps doing the spreadin' rather than the entity these kats were droppin' knowledge about. In other words, they done got twisted and caught up in a load of u know what. They lost sight of the big picture. N e who, Paul dropped some knowledge about that, knocked them over the head a couple times,and then said that peeps should just view peeps like Apollos and himself as servants of da Christ "entrusted with the secret things of God [4:1]"
BAM! Yo, if you are entrusted with da secret things of Pops........ yo that is HUGE! But Paul doesn't yet expound on just how huge, he instead mentions a simple principle: "Yo, those given a trust have got to prove faithul." That's how it is potnas. Given a trust, you must prove yourself faithful. No ifs, ands, or buts. Trust is no small thing. It takes YEARS to develop trust, and a split second to utterly destroy it. Why is that? Because trusting someone is HIGH RISK! The risk/reward ratio is not even in the ballpark of reason. If someone places trust in you, they are putting a LOT on the line, and more than material. If you break that.... man... watch OUT!
It would be nice to be able to trust more peeps, but it's tough. The pain of a broken trust is almost always just too great. And thus peeps are reluctant to give others a trust. Imagine how much closer and tighter people would be if only they prove faithful when given a trust! Yo it would be da BOMB son!!!! It wouldn't feel so risky anymore. Peeps would open up all the time. Yo, relationships would fall into the realm of the real. Facades would soon fade. Life would be easier to live. Guess what potnas, we can still experience this!!!! How you ask? Prove faithful when given a trust, and take the risk of giving others a trust. Don't burn a friend, and don't let whatever burning you've suffered in the past hinder you from ever giving another person a chance to have your trust.
Ain't THAT da truth! Word! My man Paul was droppin' some knowledge in this letter to the Corinthian peeps. He was just talking about divisions in the church in the previous chapter and helping them to realize how ridiculous it was. See, the peeps were like, "Yo, I follow Paul SON!!!!!" And others were like, "Brutha pleeeeeez, I follow Applos KID!!!!" Both Paul and Apollos were apostles makin' da rounds spreadin' da word o' Pops. But these Corinthian kats started idolizing da peeps doing the spreadin' rather than the entity these kats were droppin' knowledge about. In other words, they done got twisted and caught up in a load of u know what. They lost sight of the big picture. N e who, Paul dropped some knowledge about that, knocked them over the head a couple times,and then said that peeps should just view peeps like Apollos and himself as servants of da Christ "entrusted with the secret things of God [4:1]"
BAM! Yo, if you are entrusted with da secret things of Pops........ yo that is HUGE! But Paul doesn't yet expound on just how huge, he instead mentions a simple principle: "Yo, those given a trust have got to prove faithul." That's how it is potnas. Given a trust, you must prove yourself faithful. No ifs, ands, or buts. Trust is no small thing. It takes YEARS to develop trust, and a split second to utterly destroy it. Why is that? Because trusting someone is HIGH RISK! The risk/reward ratio is not even in the ballpark of reason. If someone places trust in you, they are putting a LOT on the line, and more than material. If you break that.... man... watch OUT!
It would be nice to be able to trust more peeps, but it's tough. The pain of a broken trust is almost always just too great. And thus peeps are reluctant to give others a trust. Imagine how much closer and tighter people would be if only they prove faithful when given a trust! Yo it would be da BOMB son!!!! It wouldn't feel so risky anymore. Peeps would open up all the time. Yo, relationships would fall into the realm of the real. Facades would soon fade. Life would be easier to live. Guess what potnas, we can still experience this!!!! How you ask? Prove faithful when given a trust, and take the risk of giving others a trust. Don't burn a friend, and don't let whatever burning you've suffered in the past hinder you from ever giving another person a chance to have your trust.
Aight playas, gotta bounce. PeACE!
G-bless,
- patrick
