Y Not I

Today, I felt like rocking out, so I went with “The Elms” and the opening song from their album “The Chess Hotel.”

The lyrics to the song are as follows:

I am the world. I’m the boys and the girls.
I’m the dads on the grind, paying rent, punching time.
I’m the guy on TV, saying, Jesus is near
I’m the man in the cell. I’m his courage and fear.

I’m the trust that you give and the honor you lose.
I’m the future you change every moment you choose.

I’m the now and the never when you got no more time.
I’m the dream that is rising in the back of your mind.
I’m the sickness and cure. I’m polluted and pure.
Baby, I am the world, and I’m yours!

I’m the joy in the air at the birth of your child,
And the pressure to win so your father will smile.
I am the king. I’m the czar. I’m the pope.
I’m your finest good deeds and your worst dirty jokes.

I’m the prayer that you breathe when you got no more steam.
I’m the people you trust. I’m the people who leave.

I’m the now and the never when you got no more time.
I’m the dream that is rising in the back of your mind.
I’m the sickness and cure. I’m polluted and pure.
Baby, I am the world, and I’m yours!

I am the sun and the darkest of nights.
I am choice to the left, I am death to the right.
I’m the dull of the blues in the sting of the bruise.
I am with you for good.
I’m the world. I’m the rules!

I’m the now and the never when you got no more time.
I’m the dream that is rising in the back of your mind.
I’m the sickness and cure. I’m polluted and pure.
Baby, I am the world, and I’m yours!

I AM THE WORLD!

As for the Scripture verse, 1 Corinthians’s 2:6-13 seems to fit well. The world teaches one thing, but those of us who are in the world, but not of it, have the Ruach to help us get G-dly wisdom.

However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. But we speak the wisdom of G-d in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which G-d ordained before the ages for our glory, which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
But as it is written:

” Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which G-d has prepared for those who love Him.”

But G-d has revealed them to us through His Ruach. For the Ruach searches all things, yes, the deep things of G-d. For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of G-d except the Ruach of G-d. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Ruach who is from G-d, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by G-d. These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Ruach HaKodesh teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

Shabbat Shalom, have a blessed weekend.