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Ride Wit Me

Written by D.E. Washington

Song ‘Awesome God’ performed by Windsor Village Mass Choir

 

Since the website has been steadily growing, I no longer have the same intimate group of family and friends that first started out during the www.servinemup.blogspot.com days. It’s at the point now where I have absolutely no clue who most of the readers of www.servinemup.com are.

I don’t know your name, I don’t know your story. All I know is that you log in and check out the spot, so for that, I’m thankful. I’m glad to have you. I’m a bit peculiar and kinda weird, but just keep riding with me baby, I’ve got a good heart.

Although I know my writing skills, quick wit and dashing looks are a driving force behind securing repeat readers (whatchu laughing at??), I am also very much aware that the majority of visitors were initially referred by a friend, family member, neighbor or co-worker. There’s even some people who have shared the link with their fellow church members. So to all you people who have taken the time and gone out of your way to help promote the awareness and visibility of www.servinemup.com , I thank you. Not just for me, I thank you for helping spread God’s Word to a dying world.

It all starts with my family. They’ve all had my back since Day 1. God blessed me to be born into a Godly family. A family that bows down and worships the risen Christ. A lot of my non-Believing friends use this fact as a springboard of why they don’t believe..

“If I had YOUR family D..I’d probably be a Believer too! But I wasn’t raised up with love like you, my family is throwed.’

I find myself cringing and having to grit my teeth when I hear that excuse. It doesn’t matter what your familial background is, you’re no longer a child. You have the free will to accept or reject the gift of God. That’s all on you now homeboy. Don’t blame yo folks for why you don’t believe. I’ve got people in my family who don’t believe either..so now what?

Just because I am from a family of Christians, does not mean that you don’t have the same choice to accept or reject the Christ just as I did. That eternal question to get into Heaven isn’t weighted. It’s not graded on a curve. It doesn’t matter what that other n’ga believes, it’s all about what you believe. There aren’t any A’s or B’s, it’s strictly Pass or Fail. Either you believe or you don’t..which one is it?

And don’t start with that lip service, because if you DO believe..then let’s see your works mane. The Apostle James let it be known, faith without works is a n’ga lying to himself and dying. Of course, that’s not exactly what the Scripture says, I kinda paraphrased it for all the Southside n’gaz..you gotta talk to them like that for them to listen.

“For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.” – James 2:26

It just gets frustrating sometimes, because we live in a world where when a man stands up and proclaims the name of the Lord, he is separated and held under intense scrutiny. N’gaz are going to pull your card and see if you’re real about this God that you claim to serve.

It’s one of the repercussions of Christian responsibility. The biggest testimony we have in this world is the life that we live. If you claim to be a man of God, a follower of Jesus? Then of course you’re going to be held to that standard. And once they can identify your weaknesses, the places where you have stumbled. The mistakes that you have made in the past, that’s when you will feel like a slave being examined on the auctioning block. Checking your teeth and the inside of your mouth. Probing in your ears and checking the rigidity of your muscles. Poking and prodding every aspect of your life to expose any and all deficiencies. They just refuse to believe that Christ is real and they try to find a reason in Christians to support their theory that Christianity is janky.

The truth is that no one is perfect, not even Believers. We all have sinned and come short of the glory. But there’s one thing to sin and ask forgiveness and strive to be better and then there’s another thing altogether when you sin unrepentantly.

“I gotta do what I gotta do..God understands what I’ve been through.”

Hardening your heart and refusing to even acknowledge when your walk is not lining up to the Word.

Some of my friends have a hard time accepting my conviction for the Christ. They think telling others about Jesus is only something that preachers, ministers and pastors are supposed to do. In their minds, because I unashamedly announce my passion for the Christ, I MUST be in line to be a preacher. It’s funny how some people already think they know what God has in store for me, but then when I ask them what the Lord has in store for them, they draw a blank.

“Don’t jock on another n’gaz faith, you’ve got to know Jesus for yo’self.”

When I charge these same n’gaz up with the Great Commission,

“Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. A-men’” – Matthew 28:19-20

And I urge them to get out here and join the fight, they usually just give me a lil smile then change the subject and slide on out, cuz they’re not ready to face that real for themselves. They’re not ready to line up to the Word and become the priest of their own families.

Taking the initiative to get their kids and wives involved in a worship community. It all starts with the man, but yet we are in such a state of spiritual decay, that the role that God has commissioned men to be responsible for in our own families is going undone. N’gaz don’t want to stand up for the Lord. They’d rather just sit on the couch and watch football.

I’m not hating, because I know what it’s like to be that n’ga chilling on the couch and watching football on Sundays. Never giving the Lord any of my time, save the grace that I recite before meals and the prayers I may recite at night before I went to bed. I might even give my mama some money to put in church for me. I wanted all of the blessings the Lord had, but I didn’t want to give Him any of my time. I didn’t want to be obedient to His Word, because my lifestyle was geared toward worshipping the most prominent idol in our society today. That god in the mirror, the god of me, myself and I.

So now when my friends see the change in me and the direction my life has taken. They take a moment to reflect on if I’m real or not.

That n’ga say he a Believer, but is he taking care of his own house?

Is he abusing or cheating on his wife?

Is he spending time with his own kids??

Is he doing dirt to get his money?

People will probe and pry because they’re skeptical of all the janky Christians they’ve run across in their lives. A lot of n’gaz have NO CLUE what it would mean to go to church on Sunday mornings instead of watching football. They just can’t see it. I used to be like that too. And for a time, even after I started going to church regularly, I’d find myself sitting in the pew, eager for the benediction so I could break out and see who’s having a good game for my fantasy football team. But once the Lord begins a good work, He will finish it. And He continues to work on my heart, and it got to the point where missing the early football games just wasn’t that important to me anymore. I wasn’t tripping. And for those who still shake their head and say, ‘I feel ya D, but that’s just not me, I just can’t see it.’, that’s because you don’t want to see it.

You don’t want to imagine your life with God as your guide, because it will require that you move around and do something different than what you’ve been doing. All you want to do is stay in control of thangs. Be the boss of you. But I’m telling ya, there aren’t too many people out there who are bigger control freaks than me. And the hardest part for me was just giving it up. Bowing down and humbly submitting to the Lord’s will. It’s a very vulnerable experience. At times it will cross your mind that you’re being a damn fool and missing out on all the fun.

Now it’s different when people who are in the church and already serving on the battlefield come at me. Some want me to sing in the choir, others want me to teach Sunday School, or be more involved in the brotherhood ministry. Work with the students, counsel young men who need spiritual direction. There’s much work to do out here in the real game.

It’s like the song says, ‘one voice can not praise Him enough.’

One pen can not tell the story.

I just pray for the world. I pray for my family. I pray for my friends. I pray for the people who visit www.servinemup.com. I pray that my voice as one crying out in the wilderness will help our men and our families. Love your wife. Train your children and raise them up in the way of the Lord. Love God and walk in His way. Andd…hmph! O Lawwwwwwd..Heh! I said…O Lawwwwwd! God is good! Ain’t he good? I said ain’t He good?? Didn’t he get Noah on the Ark? Didn’t he save Lot from Sodom and Gomorrah?? Didn’t he help GILLIGAAAAN..get off the island??

Alright, let me stop tripping ya’ll out. My grandmother told me that if God does call me to preach, that she hopes I don’t be one of them ‘hollering’ kinda preachers.

“And I hope you don’t be long winded either. Just say whatchu got to say and sit down!”

(laughing) “I hope I don’t either!!”

I sit in church every Sunday eager to hear the Word. Eager to be fed. I’m also a spooky kinda guy. I hold God in all reverence. I know what He does to hard-headed n’gaz like Jonah who don’t do what He calls us to do. I’m too afraid of God to ignore His calling. And when (or if) that day comes when He calls me to move on up a lil higher? Then I will go just like I went when He called me to write for Him. I ain’t tripping, I’m one of them free n’gaz. All ya’ll n’gaz sitting around waiting on another n’ga to do something are the ones in bondage. I pray for ya’ll to accept your calling and step up and be the man that God has beckoned you to be since before you were formed in your mother’s womb.

Don’t trip on me because I know what the Bible says, you’ve got to get in the game yo self mane.

 

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