Boondocks

The show “Boondocks” on Comedy Central is written by some black guys and it’s basically meant to make fun of black guys. I haven’t ever seen it, but I heard about a scene from it just yesterday. Before I describe it, I’d like to say that I believe that it represents something stupid about all of us; it’s just written in a “thug” type of context.

Two guys are listening to music walking down a sidewalk not paying attention to what’s in front of them. They end up bumping shoulders. Instantly feeling the horrific disrespect, they immediately draw their guns and begin to unload their clips of rounds on each other. Well, they run out of ammunition without scratching the other, but both end up running from cops that show up after the gunfire is heard. Ultimately, the cops gun them both down while trying to run away with their empty weapons.

Both hilarious and awful, but here’s the moral of the story if you ask me: Clearly our pride is the source of all evil in world, this we know. But I will see your pride and raise you a “lack of truly believing in yourself.” After all, even if all of us had the biggest pride in the world, it would be no harm to anyone until that pride felt threatened and we felt the need to defend it and prove our worth to the world. I could give you every example in the world of evil and boil it down to a need to prove something to the world around us. I would even say that that need for proving is created within ourselves and could even be translated into: Proving something to ourselves, because we don’t truly believe that we are worthy. Put that in your pipe and smoke it motha licka!

Time to go all Sunday school on your asses: Recently, I’ve learned that when Peter walked out on the water to Jesus and began to sink, Jesus was pissed that he doubted himself and started sinking. Not that Peter doubted Jesus; after all, when he started sinking he knew he could count on Jesus to save him. He just doubted that he could really walk on water like Jesus did. Jesus did not doubt Peter. Believing in the power that Christ gives us seems to give that power authority in the physical world.

What would we accomplish if we redirected the energy we put into proving ourselves and pressed forward with all confidence knowing the power we already have?

Romans 8:37