+75 / -60

On the street cred list you get 75 points for being shot multiple times and survived and minus 60 points for getting straight A's. I got on this subject  a while back when I read someones post, they were rightfully proud of their accomplishments, getting a degree etc. But then this person said, now all they need is Street Cred. Then I looked up Street Cred. I know they were just joking around. Here is another example of having the wrong goals and putting value on the wrong things. I saw a young man in Tacoma once wheeling around in his wheel chair.  He'd been shot and survived, doomed to a wheel chair for the rest of his life.   He had Street Cred, he was born black +5, at least 65 points for being shot and survived, possibly 75 points if he'd been shot multiple times. I believe he was a 23rd Street Crip, he was in that area of Tacoma, another 70 points. Do you see where I am going with this? Minus 60 points if  he was a straight A student. Minus 50 points if he could speak proper English. Anything that could help him to get a job and be self supportive would have a negative value on it. Stuff that will make it difficult like a prison record is a plus. Having a baby moma at sixteen and duplicating the cycle is also a plus. You go down this list and you just want to shake your head, how could anyone want these things for themselves.

Psa 139:14

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

God places value on us because we are made in his image. Just because we are. He has our hair numbered.

Mat 10:30

But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

Do we look at ourselves from God viewpoint?  His values promote quality of life. Most of all, you can come from the street and a single parent home and he values you just the same as the person born on the other side of the tracks. I don't need Street Creds, but I do need God.  We can be messed up and when we let him in, he changes us. He can take the garbage out of our hearts and fill it with fruit of the spirit. Love, Joy,  Peace, and the list goes on. Perhaps I am getting on another subject, but do we care what God's view is? Not only on how we view ourselves but on how we live day to day. I found times in my life, when I excused my behaviors. I even found excuses for my behavior in God's word. So do I really care what God's word says? If I disagree do I find something to support my behavior or do I try and change and conform to God's view? I think I am getting into another subject that I need to save for another blog.   God bless, LVZ.