To boast about being street smart, is like a person who is content with being unwise. If we brag on anyone, let it be God. Boasting about the nonsense that is in the street while never boasting about the God that brought you out is foolish.
We are not considered as royalty because we make it to the top of the trash dump. To find God while being on the outside perimeter of the streets is a blessing. HE should be praised daily for not allowing us to climb to the top of a trash dump. To do so indicates more about our trash status and not our class status. Do not make yourself a target for people seeking an appearance of achievement. It is not necessary to reach every summit in life; some summits are only mounds of trash.
Foolish things confound the wise, while wise things confound the foolish. Only the wise knows that no status of royalty can be reached in a lawless world. For what is clean does not come from that which is dirty, sweet cannot come from sour, light from dark, neither hot from cold. If we boast, boast on the God that gave us wisdom to understand the difference. The wise knows that being street smart means to live with a humble state of mind to navigate the twist and turns of life. Age slows movement and wisdom eliminates a necessity to brag about our heyday in the street.
Be streetwise and book smart. Through God we have the wisdom to read HIS Word that guides. We learn to give HIM the glory over every victory that we have in the street. To give glory to God we meet no resistance, and on that fact, we boast. In so doing, we speak blessing and not cursing. With words perfumed in HIS Word, we speak words that are sweet to the eavesdropper. In the truth of HIS Word there are no lies. We now have the understanding of why saltwater never spews from a fresh-water spring.
Those who seek fame are boasters of themselves and the things of the world. They are not worthy of royal status because true conquerors never brag. Correct richness understands the psychology of having wealth. One must have a long-term suspicion of the street or world, to exploit the benefits of optimism and its harvest of righteousness.
Plant a seed of peace in the street, that it might take root as you move back to the parameter of the world. The entire planet will benefit from the harvest of good seed planted by good people. Those wise enough to know how to navigate the street while planting seeds of good is an asset to God. Allow God into our dealings; this is the way of being in the world and not of the world.
Godlike discernment of things to come is powerful, to know stuff through surveillance is weakness. An ear to the street hears much, but an ear to God shows wisdom. Both can tell us something, but only one is correct. One has an ability to listen and the other has power to discern. God, who knows our thoughts, combined with the ability to alter our actions, is all-powerful. God’s chosen are smart enough to give HIM all glory. They become wise in the evasion of stupor traps planted by the enemy. They are like one who awakens from sleep, as the Lord is awoke, like a warrior wakes from the stupor of wine.
James 3:18
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18 “Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.”
1 Corinthians 5:10
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10 “not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.”
Romans 11:8
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8 “as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see and ears that could not hear, to this very day.” ”
Psalm 78:65
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65 “Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, as a warrior wakes from the stupor of wine.”
Exodus 13:16
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16 “And it will be like a sign on your hand and a symbol on your forehead that the Lord brought us out of Egypt with his mighty hand.” ”
Exodus 20:2
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2 “ “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.”
Exodus 32:7
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7 “Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, have become corrupt.”
Romans 8:16-18
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16” The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.17 Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
Present Suffering and Future Glory
18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.”