You A Fool? Be GOD’S FOOL

Sometimes we all “play the fool” in different times of our lives.
I know this from first-hand experience because I have been a fool over numerous occasions in my life but I have learned something from mine own foolishness: Be GOD’S FOOL and not man’s fool.

KJV 1 Corinthians 4:10, We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised. 

N*ggas and Boys

“N*ggas and boys. Boys and n*ggas”: this is how many of our black sistahs view black men.

It’s either “that n*gga, boy, guy or ‘male’” instead of that MAN OF GOD!

It’s not all but I wouldn’t be speaking right if I didn’t say a “solid majority” of black women view black men as cuckhold “n*ggas” under the White Man’s Thumb.

What has happened to us as (Christian) Black men?

We have lived in this wicked world too much and have corrupted and defiled ourselves in the Rap and Hip-hop culture of drugs, alcohol, tattoos, lawlessness, violence, greed of money, materialism and the Devil’s False lie that “this world is all we have”.

Some rappers in "The Game” call this “Y.O.L.O.” meaning “You Only Live Once”. And that may be true on the surface on the phrase for all men live only once on earth THEN ETERNITY.

Heaven or Hell?

Nevertheless, there is always HOPE for REDEMPTION IN CHRIST. We (as [Christian] black men) can get ourselves together and be respected, honourable men to our women, society BUT MAINLY TO GOD.

This all starts with READING and MEDITATING in the WORD OF GOD with PRAYER.

We learn, study and LIVE by GOD’S WORD in EVERY AREA of our EVERDAY LIVES.

We “clean up” our physical appearance by practicing healthy personal body hygiene, showering, cleaning and getting our teeth fixed; wearing  respectable clothing, get rid of our tattoos; we speak clear and plain English – no “slang-talking”.

We treat people with dignity and respect with that ol’ charming “swagger” us brothahs are born with.

We do our BEST to live CHRIST-HONOURING lives based on the STANDARDS of GOD’S WORD even though we always fall short of God’s Glory in our mortal, fleshly bodies on earth. Yet we KEEP ON DOING OUR BEST.

KJV Romans 3:19-26,

19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and the world may become guilty before God.

20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:

23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. 

Forgive and Let Go

Sometime it is HARD; it really is… to forgive people who have done us wrong – but we must.

Forgiveness is pleasing to God and it make our lives easier to manage in the long run.

Learn to accept help or assistance when you really need instead of blowing it off from people with an “attitude” saying, “Nah, it’s alright man. Thanks though. I’m good or ‘I’m fine’.”

On My Way From Fred Meyer’s I Stopped By “Lovers”…

After I was passing by Fred Meyer’s; I stopped by the backside of wicked sex toy shop “Lovers” – (yuck!). I was homeless…

I stopped to sit down on a concrete ledge and relax and eat some small yellow pears I picked from a local public park.

I overheard a (white) woman talking on a cellphone (which I think was a cell phone she was borrowing) to call the police about a stolen cellphone of hers worth $300-or-something dollars.

It turns out a “black man” had stole her phone or so they (the police) or her (the [white] woman) said.

Because I was the ONLY black man in the area with a backpack on and sitting down to eat my fruit (with some honey I had…); they drove over my way to me as though I was a suspect and briefly talked with me about the “situation”.

I felt deeply embarrassed, humiliated and emasculated as a man and but more so as a BLACK MAN. But most of all I felt stupid because it was my fault I put myself in that vulnerable situation.

It was late at night and I being a black man AND HOMELESS hanging around some unsavory place like a sex shop just spells out a BAD SITUATION. I set myself up.

I shouldn’t have stopped there at all even though I was weary and tired from walking all day.

The white men police officers talked decent to me; they weren’t meaning harm; it’s just that initial “black thing” of theirs that irritated me; because I was the ONLY black man around the area it must have been me, right? Right? Like all black people “look alike”.

No way José because it turns out it was anothah brothah somewhere way off in a city down south and here I am up north.

The white policemen were just doing their jobs in trying every “possible suspect” but it irritated me personally that I was called out for another man’s evil deeds. But I know God doesn’t want me to hold onto any bitterness or resentment I felt (and still feel) over the whole ordeal. Bygones be bygones. So I just shook my head and answered the officers’ questions honestly.

I was caught off-guard from everything as I was tired.

My Christian black brothahs, I learned that we need to be smarter and more conscious about our actions.

Homeless black brothahs on the streets need to (always) be somewhere out of sight in the night and avoid ALL places that can bring trouble.

Welcome to Real Christian Black Men (“RCBM”)

Welcome to Real Christian Black Men or "RCBM".

Lord-willing there's a lot of developments coming along into the future...

This is about Real Christian Black Men truly doing their best living by the Word of God and contending for the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the Christian Faith.

God-willing, my Black Brothers in Christ...

We shall see what the Lord does with this website...

~ Sincerely,

Bro. Afro Man