Wise Words from a Decent Man

Titled : Headlines • • One of the most difficult things we can do in our Entire Lives, is believe what God has said about us. Not only is it a doozy to go out on faith that there is a God but then to choose the right one and then to know His word AND His intent for your life? That is truly a marvel! The truth is though you’re a fool to think you were the one choosing anything. God chose YOU, not the other way around. You are indebted to the Messiah for all He has created and all He has sacrificed for you. For Your love, for the Love of You. Hmmmm... How could that be? Why is that the case? What could possibly be so special about me that The Almighty God wants to share a relationship? One not just filled with, but made of Love, FOR ME. •• He wants me to draw near so I can know Him. I assure you to know my God is to love Him. He is Love. Not only Alpha and Omega but bright and shining star all rolled up into one with a host to spare. He is a magnificent God. One so in love with you God writes sweet nothings like “You are fearfully and wonderfully made.” And “I know the thoughts I think towards you; thoughts of peace and not of evil. To give you a future and a hope.” I volunteer to serve a God like that each and every day of my life. Truth is, I’d give my life for it knowing what’s on the other end. In actuality, I have already and the only thing that it requires is that I submit to being the best version of me possible and He will help me get there. #BeGreat #GoWithGod #HeWillNeverSteerYouWrong •• Our prayer: Father God in the Name of Jesus Thank You for this day. Thank you for your everlasting patience, kindness, and favor towards us. Your blessing endearing us even more to a God that is Thankless to too many and not Thanked enough to those who more than a few that know Him. Thank You for being God and God alone. One that not only provides for us in Jehova Jireh but is Jehova Nissi the Lord that is our banner and our conqueror. You are truly worthy of all glory honor and praise. Father help us to magnify your name upon this land you have given us in a way that is pleasing in your sight. Help us to know you better so that we may speak life over things and it comes to pass. Help us to know who we are in you and what you have made us capable us. Give us tolerance, patience, respect for all those who do not see You in the same light but help us to be the light and not rely on the light of others. Thank You Lord for you truly are the LORD of All. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.

Titled: I am Legend 📸: Granity Studios • I find myself coming back to this fact that is synonymous with cliches and motivational writing but here goes: there really is ONLY ONE YOU. EVER. #payattention on this one because I’m going to raise my voice a little. There will only ever be one you in the history of time. You are 1 of 1. And you’re BLOWING IT! Showing up late, partying hard, not buckling down or striking it out on your own. These habits are the wolfsbane for success and growth. You will never have a legacy beyond yourself if you are so comfortable only impacting your little bubble or small corner of the world. In order to be remembered you have to be the best, no one remembers second place. But to be the best you have to work harder than everyone else. You owe it to yourself, to give you a chance at legacy. A secret no one tells you is that your friends and family members will remember you when you’re gone but after they die who will be there to tell your story. Who will know you had even existed? Are you OK with that? Be Great➡️ Get Remembered ➡️ Live Forever. #foreveryoung #lostbutnotforgotten #peace #grace #love #future #legacy #institution #goforit #goforward #neverbackwards https://www.instagram.com/p/B714aVXjqAQ/?igshid=vhtcn3ndf3eh

Titled: Here Today Gone, Today? 📸: @wisewords027 • How quickly things change. How quickly happiness dissolved into pain. How quickly we thrive. How quickly we are no longer alive. We are an intrinsically instinctive species yet so often we decide to ignore them. •Grasp the moment• Take the shot• Pour it all in• Give it everything you got! Because one day you’ll turn around and realize you wasted all that potential and all that time. If you even have an opportunity to look back on days past. There are very few universal truths in life but this one surely prevails: Tomorrow is NOT Promised. We haven’t even finished today yet... #openupyoureyes #payattention #liveyourlife #liveyourbestlife #kobe #8 #24 #legacy #leavebehind #goforward https://www.instagram.com/p/B710dx2jcUT/?igshid=1bw7vjr26j8mp

Tilted: Help a Brother Out 📸: Vectorstock Front facing the window you stare out into the abyss of the city. Congregations of crowds begin to cluster and smother a particular area. A gross negligence in planning as it failed to allow for diversification or even sharing funds. Rich man poor man we all gotta pay. But rich man and poor man don’t pay the same way. Rich man in greenbacks covered in the blood and sweat soaked tears. Poor man pays with His blood, and His sweat, and His tears and ultimately His Life. See the difference is in the ownership. The poor man bled on his own dime but the rich man got payed with it. #fairminimumwage #sharethelove #sharethefunds #wagegap #wagewar #getclose #endpoverty https://www.instagram.com/p/B7wiGD0jS4C/?igshid=ceje6ypvlbfl

Tilted: Help a Brother Out 📸: Vectorstock Front facing the window you stare out into the abyss of the city. Congregations of crowds begin to cluster and smother a particular area. A gross negligence in planning as it failed to allow for diversification or even sharing funds. Rich man poor man we all gotta pay. But rich man and poor man don’t pay the same way. Rich man in greenbacks covered in the blood and sweat soaked tears. Poor man pays with His blood, and His sweat, and His tears and ultimately His Life. See the difference is in the ownership. The poor man bled on his own dime but the rich man got payed with it. #fairminimumwage #sharethelove #sharethefunds #wagegap #wagewar #getclose #endpoverty https://www.instagram.com/p/B7wEaS5jX6G/?igshid=1ea0ssgvqm8cd

Titled: A Sunken Place • 📸: @getoutmovie Productivity, please spin me another yarn. Let me hear the tale. Let me get lost in your waves cause your way have me caught in a daze I’m about to go craze. For you see I’m a wiseman. Drunken on the aroma of idleness stop providing this sense of calm, cool, collectedness. The only thing you really offer is a sense of chill and a slight thrill but your poison. Choking me slowly with every second minute hour. I’m stuck in your perfect realm. Obscenity from the TV or the tone from my phone can keep me from being restless for long. It’s like you sit there and you judge while I’m in this sunken place. You stand perched above watching me as I watch you and you stare. A pity this wiseman never learned that in order to win you must compete and in order to play you must prepare. So here I stand at the door of my journey and as I stare out into the unknown I know decidedly this. What’s before is better than what’s behind. #getout #journey #future #goal #newyear #power #strength #procrastination #procrastinationnation #goingforwards #neverbackwards #travel https://www.instagram.com/p/B7v9E6Ejyrl/?igshid=319re0jnyeci

This sentiment has rested with me for most of my adult life. So often we have been forced to make this simple choice and more often than not as a singular person in society we choose wrong. We make choices everyday for personal gain and for selfish reasons which leads to the failure and the underwriting of many of the masses in the world and throughout history. Many systems have been put into place with the sole purpose of giving one minority of the population the vastness of wealth of this great land. How is it that we as a people, the human race, are so segmented and other species are not? The property and resource line is so fattened in our society that people are willing to kill for it. What is right is not always clear but what is easy is plain to see. Seldom do the two intersect, but in choosing what is easy you have further ingrained the status quo and rejected your brother and sister. What is inclusive is usually what is right. What is right is right for you and me. Inherently and Divinely Self Evident. So much so that it is written into the very constitution that governs the land. #pulsebeat #thoughts #love #strength #hope #harrypotter #dumbledore #hov #jehovah #light #life #truth #striving https://www.instagram.com/p/B7oqPwcDwlC/?igshid=v8utll06kii

🖼: Salvador Dali - Melting Watch Titled: Frozen in Time • Pain and it’s vagaries feeling like a trespass on my psyche. Mind totally set on the eclipsing of this melancholy vibe that saturates all that I do. Praying for a mind mixture something to flip the script put me in a position to accept the truth. But instead. I stay stuck in a mental cage bound between a time that was not and not that which is. Grateful for nothing around me as I am captive to a time past. Unable to bear a single moment that is unlike the one that was before. Drowning with each tick of the second hand but still unmovable. Rooted in a place as if cryogenically frozen in time. No kiss from a magical noble likely to stir you at any rate. Suffocating in a state of paralysis only capable to hang on for a time undisclosed. Beep beep go the monitors that are all but your only life sign as our limbo prevails. The passage of time easily detectable by the gaunt looks that have overtaken our faces. Collectively living in a hope past it’s prime but not yet expired. We wait. Wait for the stirring of a hand, the contorting of your face, a sound more prevalent than the now dull beep we hear. Open those eyes, welcome in our love, be whole again. I love you. Don’t go. So we wait. I wait. For a time that may never come. #Fallen #stuck #saddened #limbo #lieswetellourselves #coma #wakeup #sleep #asleep #holdon #iloveyou #illness #princecharming #happy #time #moments #future #past https://www.instagram.com/p/B7oeof6j88V/?igshid=2qzym2t8lkjo

🖼: @francorama Titled: • Do you know when? No I do not know the time when it will occur but I’ll know her when I see her. How will you know her when you see her? Because she’ll be perfect for me in every way. Not just perfect for who I am but perfect for who I am going to be. A Perfect fit. The Cinderella’s glass slipper clutched in my grips. But I must work too. Because I am not yet perfect for her. I must be chiseled and shaped into the Proper alignment becoming not only the man I want to be but the man she deserves me to be. It’s like we’re both on a collision course for the mark of perfection. I don’t want to get there first and spend a single minute without her. I don’t want to wait at the bench for her with a single red rose. I don’t want to beat her there. But I don’t want her to come too soon. The preparations might not be ready and it will ruin all the surprise. Timing must be in alignment always therefore I wait, and work and she works toward that end and one day she and I will meet each other at the starting line of another race but that will be the journey of a lifetime. #blushingbride #lifetime #love #laugh #lovetheoneyourewith #happiness #future #wedding #hope #family #cinderella #movie #disney https://www.instagram.com/p/B7jkq2MD6JP/?igshid=95e8cm6havo3

📸: Ezra Jack Keats Titled: The Snowy Day • Snow driven peaks stand like crests waiting to be trodden the real frontier is out there. Braving cold snaps and wind flurries the ever building Fuji stands before us mourning the mountain of responsibility that lies before us as we prepare for our day. Staring at this pale abyss of crystal and breath fog this is the type of day that call offs are made of. Drifts of cold wet cotton candy make me blue. The thought of braving this weather for any minute convenience make that association all but true. Recollections when these days were the apex of the season and snow caps were my nemesis and my duty to hunt. Raging forward into a white plain ocean ready to catch me, hold me, and be wrestled upon. Now they stand before me a remembrance of knees once more springy, outlook once more fitting, and skies somehow more blue. This singularly sifted snow cone prepared for our delight, but generations past and generations to come leaves me wholly indemnified to my former self. So I lace up my boots tight, put on my gloves and scarf cover my nose for even a snow day is a blessing to them who have chose. #revitalization #wakeup #wake #openyoureyes #enjoylife #blessed #blessedtobeablessing #love #trust #hope #fun #grace #bliss #trustgod https://www.instagram.com/p/B7dv6zYjQ5Y/?igshid=1tuemvxlhl32n

📸: bnl school pictures Titled: Mashed up Mischief • Writing with my feelings so my heart don’t hurt. Holding on too long to pain be enough to twice drench my shirt. Close clogged histories of relationships passed and affiliations missed that is neither you nor me. Criss cross the truth 4 times and it still don’t make a myth true doesn’t stop you from always threading the lies all about me. Passed out peel outs of parking lots and cemented structures where else could you store the thing. Aging alkaline beneath the mistletoe of your imagination and the tip of Everest appears. Powers that be switch the gears in your favor do you rule with much favor or a swifter hand? Drifting into an hourglass snowed in on dry land. https://www.instagram.com/p/B7duKtGD_Ux/?igshid=12mqutjhm7m81

📸: DaCre8iveOne Titled: Chance Encounters of the 4th kind • My heart skips more beats than Swiss cheese on the turntables of life when I get caught staring at you. But when you smile back it’s like time can stand still because we have in this moment possibilities. Possibilities invade my cerebellum and I am suspended in this temporal bubble of your caricatures keyboard and then it shines at me. Thoughts overflow into a litany of places thoughts of 3 kids, two car garages, and a dog. A dog that runs the beach while we walk it in our white linen outfits overlooking waves crash then receding into the abyss that is the sea. These possibilities tell you not of the trials we will face as we attempt to navigate the wild sea just to get to that beach. But there we are side by side you as my captain and God as my guide. We charge into a world filled with all but limitations and we walk where the kings have walked. I see possibilities with you. I’m just waiting for you to see me too. #possibilities #anythingispossible #winning #cantstopwontstop #fire #neverending #us #youandme #glory #grace #favor #love https://www.instagram.com/p/B7Yo66dDK-T/?igshid=16jl183jqx3q9

📸: Unknown Titled: The Monarchs Reign •
Pick one man out of this photo and I will tell you about a Dream. Pick one man out of this photo and I will show you a new thing. Pick one man out of this photo and you will see a world altogether transformed. Pick one man out of this photo and you will see a hand of great power. Pick one man out of this photo and I will give you a sad story. Pick one man out of this photo and I will tell you about victory. Pick on man out of this photo and I will show you a world altogether altered; if they didn’t stand the test of time. Pick one man out of this photo and see love in its purest form. Pick one man out of this photo and I will tell you the dream lives on*. #martinlutherking #happybirthday #kingsday #kingdom #monarchy #reign #truth #history #love #strength #hope #one https://www.instagram.com/p/B7V_M8vj_ZH/?igshid=l0dqszyhsmfe *Happy Birthday Reverend Dr. King Jr. You are truly a man after God’s own heart. The way you walked with Him will forever be emulated and seldom if ever duplicated. You ran a fine race. Take your rest.

It’s interesting that there is so much we do not know about our lives as human beings. Aside from what’s happening in the very moments we exist we know very little about what has happened before us. Based on scientific data and speculation they posit that our species has been around for about 50,000 years. The amount we know about 99 percent of that time is approximately zero. Not knowing where we came from there’s no way we can tell where we’re going. Past is important, but the future is bigger. All things that lie ahead are greatness because by the grace of God we’re still here; so each day is a new beginning and a chance at Greatness #spiritualfaith #seeingforward #movingwiththewind #God #Winning #Goals #Greatness

Oftentimes it would seem despite our best intentions we fail to make any progress towards our dreams or goals. We remain stagnant; in a constant failure to launch state for many of the greatest goals and desires of our heart. It is no secret that the chances of you succeeding if you are unwilling to at minimum try is exactly 0. So it behooves you to put your best foot forward and put the plans into motion to achieve your goals. That requires: Patience, Discipline, and Discretion. Remember this. The Wizard of Oz would not have been nearly as interesting of a movie if Dorothy never started walking down the road. #followtheyellowbrickroad #keeptruckin #moveforward #dontgiveup #goforward

If there’s only a sliver of a chance that abstaining until marriage will help you stay together longer why not take that chance?

A Decent Man.