ALWAYS KEEP AN OPEN MIND
Monday, March 28, 2011
You Just Testified on What?
Maybe it's me, maybe I'm being insensitive, or not understanding. Maybe I'm being childish with this, and I am the one that is closeminded. But a lot of people do not know what the word "Testify" means. Either that. Or they are using the word too loosely, or just to describe how their day went. To me...When you testify. You give a transparent testimony of something so deep, so traumatizing....Like a lake of blood and mud and other fluids that you had to swam through but hardly made it out of without losing your mind, pride, and soul. To me a testimony is when you testify about an event that happend in your life that makes people want to look at their lives that they have been complaining, and boasting and bragging about and just stay humble, stay faithful and stay prayed up. I never hear testimonies like that anymore. Everybody wants to sugarcoat everything about what happend in their lives. Nobody wants to tell the truth nowadays. Oh we tell the truth. But we don't tell the full, no holds barred truth. Oh. But as soon as someone comes out with a full, raw, rare, testimony everybody is looking at him/her like they are beneath their shoe. You know what the testimonies I'm hearing nowadays? Heres an example: Today I have a testimony, I had eight hundred dollars in my account and now I have fifteen hundred dollars in my account because I work hard, and I stay grinding." This is one example. Here is another example: I didnt have any gas in my car, so I asked some friends and they gave me gas money to borrow". These aren't testimonies. This is saying that God is good. You got a blessing through people. The first example I typed above, they didn't even acknowledge God. "TEST" "TESTIMONY". Am I the only one that is brave enough to tell the raw details without leaving nothing out of my life story? What are you afraid of? Why are people afraid of what people may think? We are not HERE for other people. We are HERE, to do what God has placed us here to do. Eat, Pray, Love, and more and more and more. Right?
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Most of the time I believe that we want to tell the truth about what's happening in our lives but two things stop us: One, we think our issues are the worst there are, and we want to protect ourselves from the judging eyes of people who say they won't judge us... And, two, we fear it may offend God if we talk about what's really bothering us, preferring to believe He's so selfish, so jealous, that He alone should bear the burden of our hurt anger and disappointments.
ReplyDeleteI'ma say that years of conditioning in the Black church has taught us that...