If you know the story of Daniel (in the bible) you will know that he was amongst the most intelligent men in all of Babylon. Well even that should say a lot about these brothers :) when a man is so knowledgeable and intelligent and dripping with so much wisdom, that the only people who are worthy to be compared to him are ancient prophets. I think that being the children of the God who created the mind, we should all be that way. But laziness has become such a norm amongst us, we no longer seek wisdom and pursue it. Which is quite dangerous because when we are but consumers, it is easy for those who feed us information to lie to us. John Mayer says (in his song 'waiting on the world to change') "cause when they own the information, they can bend it all they want".
The bible has been taught as a text that is so far from us as black people, and has made it easy for us to distance ourselves from it. Thus distancing ourselves from the knowledge of God. The way in which holiness and holy people are depicted (as white and civilised as opposed to us, the native inhabitants of the dark continent) was to make that level of closeness to God as unattainable to black people as possible. And it has worked. When God gave the Israelites the laws read to them by Moses, he was not giving them a religion. He knew that after years of slavery they needed to be rehabilitated (in the words of Ahk Shmael), back into a people he once shared a divine relationship with. Starting with them, and spreading the knowledge of God throughout the rest of the world. Now this law, became the CULTURE of the people. In all of the cultures of the world found throughout history, there has never been any other people, but the black people, who practise a culture so similar to that of the biblical Hebrews. Considering that the introduction of the bible did not come to Africa till recently, where had we inherited this culture from? What does that make us if not the descendants of the chosen nation of Ysrael? Well my people, think upon these things :) I will keep on blogging about my experiences of this truth, but for now I will leave you with a poem I wrote from all the thoughts I have gathered as I take my first steps in this "back to God movement" :
"And they can’t hold us down any longer. Our minds are beginning to wonder. The imaginations of our children are too strong for their chains. The chains of a massive deception. Of such an immaculate conception. For it has been written; Ysrael shall be restored. And if black people knew that they are the glory of God then they would be more inclined to respect themselves. So many layers to be uncovered, of narratives that were never ours, being sold to us as truth. That we traded even the last light we had, to buy it. Because we needed security, and none of our people knew who we were. So we had to trust the stranger, when he said he knew us. And our truth being the key to all our riches, we exchanged it for shackles. And with it he robbed us of all our value. We were left to bear the burden of a people destined for slavery.
But what he did not consider, is that, something else we bear, is the mark of God. And God will always know us. Though through time there have been ideas that erect themselves above the truth of our creator. He will never leave us, he never has. And through the reawakening of a knowledge of him, a new Adam, will live in the days of the new heaven. And we shall be like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. And everything we do shall prosper. Custodians of the new earth we need the mind of God, to sustain what the mind of God had started. And when this understanding sets us free, any of the chains they cast upon us shall not hold. Now our history, is not just a matter for the memory, it is ingrained in the lifeblood of all creation."
