Jesus actually just has like crazy aura. Imagine all of history revolving around you, like you are literally the main character and you choose to be a poor carpenter that saves the universe. unreal writing by God im ngl.
You know what shook me when I was Muslim?
The story of Hosea. God tells a prophet to marry a woman He knows will betray him.
She does. She runs to other men. She ends up enslaved, sold, used up, worthless to the world.
And God tells Hosea to go BUY HER BACK.
To pay money for his own wife who cheated on him, and love her again. Hosea 3.
I thought it was the most humiliating command in the Bible. Why would any man do that?
Then I realized I was the wife.
I gave my heart to everything but God. I chased other masters. I sold myself cheap. I made myself worthless.
And God looked at me, the betrayer, and didn’t say “you’re not worth it.”
He said, “Name the price. I’m buying her back.”
That’s the Gospel. God doesn’t wait for the unfaithful to come crawling back clean.
He pays to redeem them while they’re still dirty.
Islam told me to make myself worthy of God.
Hosea showed me a God who pays to redeem the unworthy.
The cross was Him naming the price.
Praise the Lord.
…People tend to not have faith in God when things in our world aren’t going well, due to war or limited resources for example. But we forget there’s worlds smaller than us where the same things could be going on and yet those creatures are faithful to God.
I believe when Gen. 6 and Enoch talks about there being giants who sinned against animals. I feel like that’s referring to having a limited perspective and not realizing the creatures are a community like ourselves like the Qur’an says…
If J. Cole made ICEMAN...
(Full mashup album)
01. Too Deep for the Intro & everybody dies x Make Them Cry - 0:00
02. MAFIA & KOD x Dust - 4:26
03. 39 Intro & First Person Shooter x Whisper My Name - 7:37
04. i n t e r l u d e x Janice STFU - 11:40
05. Down Bad & Under The Sun x Ran To Atlanta - 13:37
06. Night Job x Shabang - 19:03
07. The Fall-Off Is Inevitable x Make Them Pay - 21:51
08. Dollar And A Dream III & Rich N****z x Burning Bridges - 24:25
09. a m a r i x National Treasures - 27:46
10. m y . l i f e x B's On The Table - 30:14
11. 1 0 0 . m i l ‘ & MIDDLE CHILD x What Did I Miss? - 33:31
12. Huntin’ Wabbitz x Plot Twist - 36:19
13. Fever & Sticky x 2 Hard 4 The Radio - 38:41
14. What If x Make Them Remember - 41:06
15. Grippy x Little Birdie - 45:55
16. Legacy x Don't Worry - 47:04
17. Can I Holla At Ya x Firm Friends - 50:32
18. cLOUDs x Make Them Know - 54:35
Lauryn Hill speaks on why she hasn’t released another studio album since ‘The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill’:
"When you're inspired and desire to be principled, what doesn't get talked about enough is the drain... nor the challenge to find safety so that you can create with integrity."
"Most see opportunity as dollars only and often exclude the 'sense'. The Score nor the Miseducation were made because we were 'allowed' to represent what we did, we fought for every inch. Wild success can cause greed that begins to denegrate the art for the money."
"Artists go through phases, creativity requires expression, exploration and experimentation."
"I was like a Harriet Tubman figure in some respects running to speak difficult truths to power before certain forces tried to close those doors. If it was so easy to do, where is that expression now on the world stage? Systems fear what they can't control. Creativity is most potent when it's free."