The Game, Lil Wayne, and the Gospel

I was riding to school today. Traffic was think and I had almost killed myself driving east toward the sun with a foggy windshield. If any of you have done that you know exactly what that's like. 

I had my broken up radio playing a secular station. It was the only one my radio could pick up. Anyway, a song came on by The Game and Lil Wayne. I normally don't listen to Lil Wayne cuz I hate how his voice sounds and I never really listened to the Game. But this song was way too compelling to the soul. 
Its not like it was a christian song or anything. Just a song that confronted the society that no one wants to regard as fully American. The song is called "My Life". 

After I heard the song, got to school and made sure I looked up the song on Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6MZMkVV4WE (This is the raw version. Viewer discretion is adviced.) The video showed a whole different world where most Americans living in it don't have a voice to call out for help....or a voice that anyone else wants to listen to anyway. 

It was the voice of the hussla. So many people have such a lack of understanding for this set that they have been morally alienated from the American society, only adding to their lack of job and educational opportunities. Of course, the cycle is perpetuated when the only means of paying the rent or buying food accepted on this level is illegal.

There are solutions for the next generation. Better politicians for better schooling. Trying to get those outsourced jobs back into the US to increase job opportunities that we are so direly in need of. So I encourage everyone to do their part and vote. But that can't help everybody. 

It won't bring trust into the workplace for that ex-convict who has served his time. It won't bring hope to that 20-30 year old who never graduated high school who's out in the dope game. It won't help that 17 year old girl who has 3 kids and has to strip for her money. What these people lack is hope and bringing back outsourced jobs won't bring that with it for them. 

So how do we fix it? Because as Christians, it is our duty, isn't it? It's not something we can completely fix. But Matthew 25:34-40 makes reference to Jesus' response to those who have taken care of those less fortunate that themselves. "I was an hungred and ye gave me meat..." There's only one way to restore hope to a people who have lost everything and aren't being given much of a chance to get it back. That's through showing them God. 

But Jesus nor any of the disciples (by that, I mean effective followers of Christianity) never tried to force God on anyone. They simply filled a need so they could be heard. The woman at the well seemed to need a man to care more about her soul (so much so that even the political and social rankings didn't matter to him). She found that in Jesus. The Ethiopian Eunic just wanted someone to interpret the prophesies of Isaiah for him on his search for enlightenment and wholeness. Phillip supplied that interpretation and a baptism to boot!

Paul said that he would become all things to all men that he might by all means save some (1 Cor. 9:21-23) as he so rightly proved in his confrontation with the Greeks. (Acts 17:16-33) My question to everyone this morning is a bit more profound. This one can only be answered in each of our own hearts in our own current situations. What are we willing to put up with? What are we willing to become to all men that we might save some?