Yo, what's up people? I'm your host, Jay Will, and I would like to welcome you to Inspire Guys People, where we balance faith and business to guide you to your purpose. Man, what's up? How y'all been doing?
Hopefully everybody's been doing all right. Life is treating you good. I just want to kick it with y'all today, man, about who do you turn to? Like when life gets rough, and you get confused, when you're down and out, when you are conflicted, you know what I'm saying with things, and how you feel differently than you used to feel.
As you go through our life, there's always peaks and valleys, ups and downs. And there are sometimes, if we be real where, when things get tough, we allow the wrong people, the wrong voices in our ear. And so, it's a question that I'm going to ask you today, and that's what or who is standing between you and God. We're going to explore this idea today.
Hopefully you're going to walk away feeling encouraged, inspired, and having the juice that you need to move forward in this life. Thank you so much for joining and listening in. Like, subscribe, all that stuff if you rock with the podcast Inspire Guys People. No, we do.
So we're going to start off with that simple question. What's standing between you and God? What is standing between you and God? No, let's first just think about, like I'm not saying that something is standing between you and God, because maybe you looking at this and you're like, fam, I'm good.
Like I have nothing going on. All right, I ain't trying to put that on you. So let's just talk about somebody else hypothetically. What could be standing between somebody and God, so that if you ever find yourself in a situation that you can kind of identify things and maybe prevent the thing from being a distraction.
So, starting there are distractions. They come in all shapes and sizes. You feel what I'm saying? And I think in this life sometimes, if we be honest, we can kind of get comfortable with the distractions.
So the point that is something standing between me and God, and I haven't even identified the thing as a distraction because it's just so much a part of everyday life, whether it be my life or other people life that I've kind of accepted and rocked with. You feel what I'm saying? And here's the other thing, this is a big one. Something that could be standing between you and God.
Look, it's our temptation and our lust. Now, I'm just being real. I don't trust nobody who can admit to themselves that they have some level of temptation in life, some level of lust. It's not always sexual, it can be monetary, could be greed.
Could be a lot of things, but I don't trust nobody who thinks that they are just above all. Like, oh, I don't struggle in any area. There's nothing that I have to watch out for. I look at recognizing and understanding your temptations and your lust that you deal with in your own life, no different than driving on a freeway and looking at the sign that says, a deer ahead.
Like the reason the sign says deer ahead, at least has a picture of a deer, assuming you know what that means is because it's happened before. Like it's been a deer on that road before. And sometimes that's how temptation and lust operators like, oh, it's just understanding in your own life. You know what?
I recognize that I get kind of weak or I get distracted when this type of situation is happening. Or when I'm in this type of environment, I notice that I'm not quite myself or whatever. And these are ways, like the first way for me is like, if I could be real with myself, that I have things to watch out for, then maybe I can prevent myself from crashing into the deer this next time. Feel what I'm saying?
So again, what's next? False teaching. Look, I'm gonna just be real with y'all, man. False teaching is one of those distractions that comes between us and God.
And I think a lot of us just like, we just accept it. And here's the reason why, right? I think we accept it because it's become too difficult for most of us to identify. And so it's like, yo, like I don't wanna be judging everybody.
I don't wanna call you a wolf or say you a false teacher. So I'm gonna just accept everything. And what we do, we say a little stuff like this in the world today, your truth. You know, that's your truth.
I'm not here to judge you. I don't know where those type of sayings came from. That kind of talk, but that's just a lie. Your truth can be a lie, bro.
Like, so us adopting all these weird, I think it's about feel good. Like if I'm being real, if I just sit back and observe, it's like, I think we just start adopting everything that kind of feels good. And we like, yeah, that's the truth. Cause it, because it feels better for me to say your truth than your lie, I'm gonna just say that's your truth, even though it's not the truth.
But let's just be real, it's a lot of false teaching out here. And false teaching, I don't just mean biblically. I mean, biblically, like people who misuse and abuse the Bible and they don't preach it the right way. So they kind of deliver an incorrect message that can send somebody down the wrong road.
But in the most simple terms, bro, like a lot of people on podcasts, just like, you know, a podcast like this. It's a lot of wolves out there. It's a lot of false teaching. I'm gonna give you an example of what I mean by that.
Because false teaching doesn't always come from a teacher. And here's what I mean. You can have, let's just say a celebrity on a podcast. And let's say that celebrity is somebody who you like because of their acting, their skill said, their music, whatever, whatever performance they do, you feel like they're talented.
And that may be the truth, right? But that doesn't qualify that person to speak on other areas of your life. And I'll see people on podcasts or see a clip come across my phone, somebody share a clip. Let's say this celebrity's talking about relationships.
And like, they whole message, I say, let's say this person is talking about marriage. And they whole thing is like, there's negative view of marriage and why you shouldn't get married and why you can't trust nobody in the wild. And you're like, well, yeah, because you know, you've been married folk times and, you know, you are living a life that doesn't align with God and you're trying to figure out why it doesn't work. And instead of you looking inward and saying, yo, what am I doing wrong?
You're basically projecting that outward and saying, yo, if I couldn't get it right, it must mean because I ain't nobody right. And you start discouraging people who may be seeking to be married or people who may be happily married or whatever it is. And that's an example to me where we've accepted false teaching, we've accepted distractions. It could be a 30 second clip, bro.
It could be a little 30 second clip with someone of your favorite celebrities and they could plan a scene in your mind because it's something that's anti the way that God views, whether it be marriage, relationships, life, this happens in so many areas, right? It could relate to anything. Right now, we're just still talking about what are the ways that you could be distracted because I'm asking a question today, what's standing between you and God? And I think some of us have not sat down and asked ourselves that question.
Look, we know that there's something there. We know that something feels off. We know that we don't feel like all the way 100 or into God right now. And all this is so much happening in the world, but we haven't sat down to take account and say, like, yo, let me figure out what is it exactly that's standing between me and God?
Because God hasn't gone anywhere. And that's the way, the reason I'm framing the question the way I am is because God is there. And sometimes we are lying to ourselves and making ourselves think God went away and God, why don't I feel God? You know, you've just drawn further away from him.
You've created, you've allowed something, we've allowed something to create distance between us and the Lord. And so then we start questioning him. He like, oh, no, I'm right here. You just can't hear me no more.
Imagine this. Imagine you are, you know, you and a friend go to the mall or a concert and y'all start off together and then a crowd comes between y'all for whatever reason. And as that crowd rushes or comes between y'all, you and this friend are further and further apart. Can't hear each other, can't see each other no more.
But that friend is still there. Like, you're not gonna tell me that they're not there, just because you can't see them or hear them or feel them anymore. And that's how God is looking at us sometimes. So here's the last example I give of things that could come in between us and God, politics.
Now, I know this is a tough one. I've really just in my own personal time, I've thought a lot about politics and religion and faith in the role that politics is playing in the world today. And look, you may not like my perspective on this, but just take it respectfully, because I don't really get into this versus that. I'm independent.
I'm on God's side. Like that's the side I'm worried about. But when I look at the road of politics is playing today, I really feel like politics is replacing religion for a lot of people. And I know that sounds weird, maybe to say, and maybe something, maybe you think I'm wrong and that's cool, just hear me out.
I'm not saying that I'm my way out of highway. I know everything. Look, challenge me, that's okay. But for me, I think about the role that religion and faith used to play for people, especially Christians in America particularly was like, it was a moral compass.
It was something that guided the other behaviors in my life, right? It guided my lifestyle at home. And don't take this to me. And this is where we become extreme.
Don't be extreme. Don't take this to me and that I think we were ever perfect. That's not what I'm trying to say. I'm not trying to say that a Christian is perfect or that I've walked perfectly or anything.
That's not what I'm saying. But what I'm saying is that when you have something as a moral compass, like Christianity in Christ, something that is perfect, something that does represent righteousness, then it becomes that North Star, that thing that you are striving for every day. It's the reason you didn't cut somebody out yesterday. It's the reason you didn't slap your coworker is because you had a moral compass that was rooted in Christ.
It's also the reason you didn't lose your mind. Like a lot of us, when we pray, or we can give our, and we used to get testimony services when I was younger, is like, you know, thank you God for blessing me to be in my right mind. I'm like, hey, y'all, some of us, I don't know. Before you pray that prayer, before you get that testimony, you might want to make sure you're in your right mind, but some of us today ain't in our right mind.
But what am I trying to say? Like, we went from being a society of people that valued having some level of composure in the midst of challenging situations to really a broad society of people that really champions people who crash out. I can't tell you the number of times on social media, especially as it relates to politics, that people applaud someone for literally just losing their mind. And I don't care what side it's on.
And this is why I also feel that politics is replacing faith for many people is because most people can only hear you through the lens of democratic and republican right now. Like right now, if I told you I voted for a democrat, you're gonna turn me off or turn me up. If I told you I voted for a republican, you're gonna turn me off or turn me up. You're gonna come to all these conclusions about who I am and what you think about me because you have allowed your politics in the role of politics to become a religion to you.
And to me, regardless of what side of the aisle you're on, I think that's a very dangerous place to be because I am a believer that Christ is my compass. Christ is the God. That's my foundation. That's the point that in which I start filtering through opinions about all these other things that happen in life through politics, whether it be social, financial, economic, whatever it is, it doesn't matter to me.
There is no instance to me where Christ takes the back seat. There's no instance in my opinion where I say put God aside because we got to solve this issue over here. I'm a believer that when you are a Christian, a follower of Christ, that Christ is the core foundation of your belief system, of your decisions, and your moral compass. And I believe in the world today that Christians, I'm speaking of Christians in particular, we've allowed politics to come in between us and God to the point that we first make sure something agrees with our politics and then we'll consider our faith.
And how do I know this? Cause I see Christians fighting for various reasons with one another because of politics. So we're gonna pause that there because I'm probably gonna lose a lot of people just for even mentioning that because again, it has become our religion. So now the question, like not that we've established, hey, here are some things that could come in between me and God and these are just some things.
Of course, there's way more things that could come in between you and the Lord. Then now the question becomes, how do I get back on track? Like if I'm struggling and if I'm guilty of this, like how do I find my way back to thinking like a believer, and following Christ ultimately? And I think the first thing is refocusing on the word and on purpose.
Now that may sound kind of generic, but it's no different than a camera. If I allowed this camera to be out of focus, you just, you won't see me as clearly and it might throw you off, right? Be a little blurry. Like you ever see somebody, blurry pictures, like, you ever get somebody on your phone, you ask them to take a picture, and then you get the phone back and you look, and you let them walk away like, oh yeah, look great, and you go right to delete the picture, because you like, bro, I don't know what she was looking at, but that's blurry and I'm not using it.
And that's kind of how it is sometimes. It's like, yo, a lot of us are living, like our life is a blurry picture. Like we don't know what's going on, we can't really tell, we just following whoever, whatever, whatever, whoever, however, just made it. I'm sure at least one of those wasn't the word that I just said, but what's my point?
We need to refocus. And sometimes the refocus it means staying a steal. I noticed a lot of times with the enemy, he wants to keep you on the go, and that's how he keeps you distracted. Some people who just can never sit still, that is sometimes a sign of somebody who is like, bro, like you really need to settle, focus and hear what God is saying, because it's really hard to be focused when you're all over the place, right?
And so look, refocusing. I want us to remember that input influences output, what I mean by that is, kind of like the example I said earlier, where it's so easy nowadays to be listening to a toxic podcast, and you haven't even realized it's toxic, it's just, and it might be a happy podcast, but it's happy you're seeing. It's just continually talking about and affirming things that are anti the way the Lord has taught us to think about them, things like relationships, marriage, business, just again, our character, how we treat other people, the idea of this territorial mindset of like, yo, you could be a Christian and I'm a Christian, but if you from this side of the tracks, then I view you this way. And the blood of Christ ain't even strong enough to bond us anymore, because we've raised our politics above that.
And so I just think that we gotta understand that the things we allow to be spoken to us, and the things that we accept, even when we hear them, they're gonna influence the output. They're gonna influence who we are, and the product that we put out into the world, the person that we are, and some of us are walking around if we be honest, and it's like, bro, like, I'm not even acting like a Christian no more, because I'm so caught up into these other things that don't have nothing to do with God, right? And sometimes it's because I don't trust God anymore. And a lot of us are trying to solve God problems ourselves, because we feel that we are better fit and better suited to solve the problem than God is, and that's why we stop praying, and we started crashing out, because we think the crash out is in some type of way, more effective in producing some level of result.
And maybe in a short term, you feel like that's a victory, but in a long term, I don't think it's good for us. All right, so moving on, just keep in mind, it's good to look different for different people. So as we talk about how to get back on track, I don't wanna try to paint the picture that there's a one-size-fits-all, right? Like, you know, these are just some ideas and some things that I think about in my own life, and some things that I'm sharing that might help you, but I'm not saying these are the only ways to think about getting back on track, right?
The way that I think of it is remixing your life. When I think about getting back on track, I think about like, there's all this noise in the world. And when you mix in music, it's like, you got the drums, you got the piano, you got the vocals. And a great song has a good mix on it, and it just means that things are at the right level.
So you don't want the drums too loud, because it could be distracting. You don't want the piano too loud, and you can't hear the vocals. You really want this nice blend. And sometimes in our lives, I think we allow our lives to be like a bad mix.
Like we allow, and these voices over here to be so loud, and we've turned down the voice of God, we've turned down the influence of the Bible and our faith, and we've turned up the influence of the world, and we just need a remix. Like we just need a proper mix. You get what I'm saying? So it might mean going in there and looking at your own life and saying, yo, I need to turn down some of these distractions.
What can I look like? That might look like, hey, you know what? I've allowed myself to start scrolling Instagram first thing in the morning for 35 minutes every day, and that's a lot of distractions. That is a lot of distractions.
Five minutes in scrolling social media, and you could just be subject to all type of craziness. So what's the point I'm making? In that scenario, a person might say, you know what, the Lord has lead me to turn down the volume of Instagram in my life, and maybe I need to limit myself to, instead of 35 minutes first thing in the morning, I need to limit myself to 35 minutes a day. And some people might say, I might need to get off here for a week or two days or whatever.
Look, there's no one size fits all that's for you and God, you detected the Lord to figure out, but here's what I do know. I do know that there's so many voices out here today, that if you're not remixing, and if you're not even sitting down to consider what voices am I allowing to ring loud in my life, that you might be acting a certain way and may not even know it. So we need to turn down the distractions and turn up the Lord, turn up the word of God, turn up the faith, right? We need to be proactive.
I think we've allowed ourselves to become a reactive society. And some of that is because of social media, what happens every day you wake up, there's a million things going on. And if something crazy enough happens, good or bad, then everybody on social media will be reacting to the same video. And so this thing had to happen for me to react to it.
And a lot of us are living our lives just in a reactive mindset. And for me, I'm a proactive person and I'm just, I'm gonna be transparent. Like, for me, I remember when I first started this podcast, like I have so many proactive topics and things that we talked about, an example was AI. I remember I've done one or two, I think I've done two episodes on AI maybe two years ago before AI was like really blowing up, year and a half, two years, whatever it may be.
And then I remember shortly a month after that, it was crazy like AI, chat, GBT launched or whatever. It became popular maybe it was out before it. But my point is I'd always like, you know, value being proactive because I think that's when I'm hearing from the Lord is when I'm proactive. Being reactive for me or trying to create a channel that's based on video reactions.
And I'm not talking nobody that does that. But for me, it's not the mindset I like to live my life in. Cause it means I have to follow something first to be something. And I just don't like that mindset.
Like I need something else to happen. And then my whole life is just reacting to everything. And again, I wanna be kind of, I wanna be too harsh with sounding harsh like I'm judging people that are reacting doing reaction videos or something. That's not the thing.
I think that that's a mindset that I think we've turned up too much and we need to turn the volume down when being reactive and start seeking the Lord and saying, how do you want me to proactively go about things in his life? Because I think at the end of the day, it comes down to reconnecting with the Father. And it's really hard to do that if you got all these things standing between you and God. Here's where I kind of wanna wrap this up at.
Real life matters. And I know it's tough because social media is a place where I'm talking to you right now, right? So I like social media. I do genuinely, generally like social media.
I gotta say it's slow to make sure I'm not lying. I do like it. But it also is a challenge to me because I think it's become so dominant in our lives that we don't actually value real life as much as we used to. In fact, I make the argument, I make this argument before on the show that people without even knowing it have placed more value on their digital life, social media online, than they do in reality.
And I don't wanna go too far down that rabbit hole, but what I will say is that, you know, action speak louder than words, right? You got people that just put way more effort into who they are online, how they come across online, we become slaves to the algorithm. Like whatever the algorithm say we gotta do to reach more people we do it. All right, I gotta put out five videos a day.
They gotta be 30 seconds long and this and this. And look, I'm just as guilty as anyone else. I've played that game. I've tried to.
But from the end of the day, I realized like, look, real life matters way more than all this stuff. And the more that I focus on in my real life and the more I focus on really developing as a person and growing in my real life, honestly the less necessary it is for me to try to act like anything online. Like it, you could think whatever you wanna think at the end of the day. And I think that's not to say that that that's like himself righteous way that we all should be thinking.
It's just what I'm saying is that it's my way of saying my real life is more valuable and I'm gonna continue to protect the value of my real life. Now, I'm not living in a stone age and don't realize that social media has a place in the world and it's not going backwards. It's gonna be more and more relevant and digital online. But I also understand the challenges that come with the digital reality and the more that our value becomes more focused on that, the more it blurs the lines and even puts us at risk in our regular life.
I'll give this example. When you think about AI, AI is interesting to me because, and I'm not gonna go too deep in it, but I've done a whole podcast on AI. Like I said a year and a half ago. It's very interesting to me because I think the more we lean into AI, the more we get to a point where you actually don't even know what's real and what's fake.
I've seen videos of Michael Jackson, Elvis and Tupac at the gas station. And yeah, you're talking about early stage AI, like very early stage still, and they pretty much look real. And so then I've also seen AI versions of real people saying or doing stuff that they didn't actually say or do. So imagine like how many bad ways that can be used.
Like imagine how dangerous that is especially for people who put so much value on digital life or for people who are so distracted, so easily controlled by a 30 second video clip of what someone said or something that happened. When it's like, bro, you don't even know if that happened. Somebody could have edited that. But we started the base art live so much on what happens online.
Last thing I'll say about that. Going back to politics for a second, this is a very interesting thing to me. If I base my real life based on what I see online, then I would think in real life we was, going grenades, kind of world war three, like a white person and a black person can't be in the same room, a Democrat and a Republican or whatever, like online, what I've noticed is that the most extreme people have the loudest voices. I also think that's dangerous, but I'm not going to go into it.
But if you just go out and live in real life, you'll realize like, oh, you could be white and black or you could be Asian and Indian or Democrat Republican, Christian and Hindu and be in a room together and be super pleasant and have zero attention, like none at all. When you go out, I travel quite a bit, you go out and you live in a world and you travel and you realize like there's a lot of cool people in the world, like regardless of all these little categories that we all want to act like we perfectly fitting it, when basically everybody's lying in front and because nobody fits perfectly in them. And like for a fact, I know the people are fronting. So at least, I can't say that like everybody's front, I shouldn't say that like a fact.
But that's how I feel. I feel strongly and I do know for a fact that at least some people are fronting and playing a role online, even politicians, they play roles to get things done, but these people don't really believe some of the stuff they say on either side. And we allow that stuff to be so much of our reality that we're going to fight each other over something that some person that we don't even know said is some other person we don't know online or on a video or on CNN or Fox News. But I'm not about to fight you because of what they said.
Like it doesn't actually make sense. And last thing I'm gonna end with there is that one of the most beautiful things about being a follower of Jesus to me is that he doesn't force you to follow him. You have to accept what he gave, the gift he gave, but he doesn't force you to. And I think all of us can take notes from that in the world today as I look around and we're all forcing our opinions and our politics and our views of the world on other people.
And we've allowed the enemy to be the strongest voice, the enemy that has a voice that basically says, if you don't believe what I believe or you don't do what I do, then you're the evil one that is so forceful and is so intellectually and logically weak, such a weak position, but it works on people because we've become so emotionally driven. I say all that to say, there's a lot of things that can be standing between you, myself and the Lord. And I'm hoping and praying that today has at least made you think just a little bit about taking a step back and detoxing and eliminating distractions in your own life, whatever that might look like. And also turning down the voices that are ungodly and turning up the godly voices.
And again, this isn't about one size fits all, this is about you and God, this is a personal walk, this is a personal decision. But I would just hope to encourage and inspire you to be your own person. Don't allow the world to define you and don't allow people to force you to be away that you don't even know why, like why is that the way to be? Like people have gotten to a point where they think they could just tell us who to be and it doesn't even have to make sense to us.
I should just do it because the whole crowd is doing this. I should just do this because of basically peer pressure. Come on, we learned about peer pressure in elementary school. You don't just smoke a cigarette in the third grade because everybody else smoke in a cigarette, bro.
That ain't what you teach your kids. You don't teach your children. Hey, when you go to school, whatever the crowd is doing, just blindly follow them because if everybody's doing it, it must be right. But I feel like that's how we operate as a society now.
We think that we could just pressure a bully people into thinking or believing something or taking a certain position. And at the end of the day, we don't even have to explain to them why we think this is the way. Just, hey, we all doing it, follow us. And it's like, I'm just here to tell you, regardless of what all the politics that you're on, regardless of what you believe, even as a Christian, right?
The Bible says, study to show yourself approved. Like as Christians, we can study, we can ask questions. We should be believing because we have actually put in some time and effort and energy, not just because someone said to believe. So even within our faith, we shouldn't just be blindly believing something for no reason, right?
But we also shouldn't just be rebels without a cause. You know, being rebellious against the faith, just because some 30 second clip of some guy that, you know, says something that sounds good or some girl for that matter, says something that sounds good. And we just so easily sway and follow these things. And the Bible does say a double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
And I do believe that some of us, because we have this instability, it's hitting us in all areas of our lives. It's not just spiritual, it's financial, it's hitting our relationships, it's hitting us in our job, at our job. And some of us don't even understand the value of actually having honor and character and caring about things. We just have become like reckless and emotional and crash outs.
And I'm telling you, like, no matter how much, like crashing out seems to pay off for people these days, in the long term, having that type of mindset only hurts you. You might think you hope another people, oh, I told this person, oh, look, man, that stuff is weird and childish and it doesn't help anyone. Be smart, be wise, be educated, intellectual, be composed, have faith. And most importantly, eliminate any distractions that are standing in the way of you and the Lord.
Thank you so much for watching today. Please do like, subscribe, check us out on YouTube, inspire guys, people, and check out my music. Oh, and you know what, I forgot a whole thing. No, we not done yet, bro.
I haven't done a podcast in so long, I'm about to cut it off for even get to, look, I wanted to end it. I wanted to do this song and lyric breakdown because this concept of what's standing between you and God actually came from my album, my latest project, This Time is Different. So if you haven't checked out my music, please do check out This Time is Different by JWim Music. But I'm gonna just spend these last five to six minutes, let's take 10 minutes of the show.
And I'm gonna listen to it, let you hear 30 seconds of the music, the song, and I'm gonna break down with these lyrics to me. And it all ties into this idea of who do I turn to when things get tough and what's standing between me and God? Ultimately, when I have a distraction on one side and God on the other, who do I turn to? Do I turn to the distraction and get even more distracted and even more lost or do I at some point I turn to God?
And I just want to say this before I share the music, regardless of who you are, regardless of what struggles you have in life, what shortcomings you have in life, it is never too late to choose God. It is never too late to choose Christ. It's never too late to choose Jesus. And the thieves on the cross, when Jesus was on that cross, there were a thief, two thieves on each side of him.
And I think the dynamic and the perspective of like, yo, one decides to choose Christ right there at the end and one doesn't. And when you think about that dynamic and the importance of that, just that little situation, that's not something that we like talk about a lot, it just shows the mindset of people. We both could be, look, I could be just as guilty and messed up as you, just as sinful as you were, but if I choose Christ, then I go to heaven with Christ. I go down the path of righteousness.
And so it doesn't matter what you've done or who you are, but you do have to make that choice to turn the God at some point. It's like, don't be the thief on the cross that was right there with God. Opportunity of a lifetime, it couldn't see it. Now, you know how many times some of us are just, we had a victim mentality, we blame everything on everything in the world for what's happening to us, but sometimes it's like, bro, you ever think about how many times you had the opportunity of a lifetime and you were standing right there and just didn't accept it, just didn't see it?
So sometimes we have to open our eyes, right? All right, so let me share a little bit of this. Let's go, share the screen, rock with this. Thank you for listening so far.
All right, well, we got high one to share this. Let's share it like this. All right, so this song is called Turn 2 and it is featuring my brother, Darius James and the kids. I say the kids because it's Darius kids and they're my niece, take them.
So my niece is an nephew, we got Zoe, Zion, DJ, and take them on this song called Turn 2 and Darius James, my brother is on the hook. Let's rock with it, I'm gonna pause and like, you know, talk about it, I guess or whatever, but let's kind of listen to this and see what time it is. I'm gonna be getting a lot of girls but I'm gonna teach me how to treat one. Call them in there.
But I'm gonna teach me how to be one. They tell me how to act and like the same but I'm gonna teach me how to live like one. You're gonna wanna turn two, turn two, turn two. All right, cool, so let me just say this first, like turn two, y'all my brother, Darius, I'm here, we got the kids on the hook.
What the hook is talking about is basically like, it says they tell me to get money, but I wanna teach me how to keep some. They tell me to get a lot of girls but I wanna teach me how to treat one. Calling me to man but I wanna teach me how to be one. They telling me to act like a saint but I wanna teach me how to live like one.
So the whole idea is that in this world, what I was thinking about when I wrote that hook was like in this world, yeah, people will tell you how to get money. They'll make rap songs about how to get money. It's like, but nobody teaches you how to get some. I mean, how to keep some because like keeping it is in your character.
That's gonna be in a good steward. Those are the things you see in the Bible, not being greedy, having some self-control. So it's like, don't just tell me how to get money, tell me how to keep some. They tell you how to get a lot of girls, right?
You can find out how to get a lot of girls. People encouraging you to be promiscuous left and right. But how many people are teaching you how to keep one? They calling you the man, a lot of the man figuratively.
This could be female as well. A lot of us wanna be arrogant. We wanna be puffed up. We wanna do things where everybody praise us.
But it's like, yo, you calling me the man but you wanna teach me how to be one. And then they telling you how to act like a saint, right? We could turn on any Christian song and they could tell you how to act like a Christian, dance like a Christian, talk like a Christian. But who's gonna teach me how to live like one?
So the idea was like, Lord, you're the one I turn to. And it was, this song is really about this idea of eliminating the distractions in my life and the voices and all the information around me and saying like, Lord, I'm a turn to you. And in this world today where so many people are turning away from you. And I'm not saying everybody, it's a lot of people turning to God, it's not just me, I'm just sharing a song.
Like, I'm gonna turn to you though. Yeah, all right, let's go back, let's listen a little. The internet, I ain't internet. Where's the people?
Too much flexing on the internet. I ain't internet. Where's the times growing timelines? You can't get it back.
I just say what's on my mind findin'? If you ain't feelin' it, screenshot but no reply. I know you were still in it. I still coincident.
Bein' on my own photo synthesis. Texting on my phone. Photo synthesis. Communic.
Okay, cool. All right, let me break some of these lyrics down real quick and I'm gonna be outta here. Too much flexing on the internet. I ain't internet.
Wasting time, scrolling timelines. You can't get it back. That's pretty simple, right? Like, all this flexing on the internet, not really my style.
Like we talked about like all the time, you waste on the timeline. You can't get it back. What'd I say? Scrum, you can't get it back.
Mm, man, I don't know what I say. Hold on, bro. That's crazy. I ain't feelin' it, screenshot but no reply.
I know you were still in it. I'm no coincidence. Bein' on my own. Screenshot but no reply.
I know you was feeling it. No coincidence. I'm eatin' on my own photo synthesis. Like, it's the idea of like, we have become such, our whole relationship with people is just through screenshots, sharing links.
Like we don't know where it came from. We don't know who made it. Like we just like, and this ain't really a knock. It's just like me sitting back and being like, bro.
In the world today, it's people that we haven't called and talked to each other on the phone for 30 minutes or we haven't gone to grab lunch for an hour. But like we just like, just share back and forth. This is a lot of people. So it's nobody in particular, please, if you see this, don't think it's you.
It's everybody. It's family, it's friends, it's whatever. Where we just have allowed the internet to be our form of communication. And some of that is cool.
And some of it is like, you know, not as much, right? So yeah, let me keep it going for somebody to get mad at that. Oh, photo synthesis. Texting on my phone to photos.
Oh, so I say I'm eatin' on my own photosynthesis. Texting on my phone to photosynthesis. So yeah, this whole idea, like first what I'm saying is that I'm not gonna be a slave to the timelines, a slave to social media. Like I'm eatin' on my own photosynthesis.
I believe it's like when a plant or something feeds itself. So I'm just saying like at the end of the day, a lot of people become slaves to the algorithm because of money because they're like, yo, this is how I make money or whatever, whatever. And a lot of times money is how we allow ourselves to start really like going against our principles in our character and our beliefs easily. And so I'm just saying like, yo, I'm eatin' on my own.
Like that just means like, I am not gonna allow myself to be a slave to something. I know how to produce finances. I know how to produce things to feed my family, right? And then texting on my phone a photosynthesis.
It's like, yo, like that's this whole idea of like a metaphor around like these memes and how we communicate and also like photosynthesis. Photosynthesis, anyway. All right, so let me not get boring with the breakdown of lyrics. I love breaking down lyrics, I'm sorry.
Synthesis, communicating through these memes like a love language. You said I said we save it. Don't even know who made it. If we don't talk no more, who fartest at?
If you miss my call and never call me bad. Let's never lose touch. If you go off land, you still exist to me. Family is more than just a pick you see online.
Okay, I gotta say this, right? So it's this idea of like we become so accustomed to communicating through memes and things like that. What I'm really trying to say is like, yo, like if you haven't heard from me and I haven't heard from you, like I still care about you. Like I care about you in real life.
Don't let like, you know, don't let our only form a communication be social media. And then it's like we haven't heard from each other. You get what I'm saying is like you matter to me. Hopefully I matter to you more than just become like an AI robot that you just send a meme to and you never even ask how my day was or I seen you memes and jokes all day.
And it's like bro, I haven't even like said happy birthday for real or like done something more meaningful. It's about the need for real relationships in the world. And like also not allowing our relationship with God to become just this digital reenactment of how we've allowed ourselves to become with people. And like and share and comment on it.
If you don't know me in real life and you don't know me. I don't say this to be rude. I mean, this is all cool. I just can't do what they do in remade.
Tell me guys about it. So don't give me how to keep songs. Tell me guys about it. Girls, but don't teach me how to treat one.
Yeah. Call them me the man. All right, let's go to the second verse. Don't teach me how to beat.
Let's see what I'm talking about. All the let's do media is on the screen. Bro, post up file. Now you should be free.
Bro, turn the crowd down. Focus on your team. Cool. Oh yeah, I love this.
This is one of my favorite. Shout out to my boy Red that produced a track. All the let's do need is on the screen, bro. OK, this is where you got to follow me because we talking about social media and basketball at the same time.
People who know me know I love basketball. That was my first love. So sometimes for no reason, I will have a basketball on Tondre in my music. So on one hand, it's like all the less you need is on the screen, bro.
So you're on your phone, you're scrolling social media. All right. But then it starts with like screen, bro, like set a screen, right? We're talking about eliminating distractions.
So if you're whooping and the enemy, the op is playing a defense on you, then your brother, your teammate comes and sets a screen to get that off you. All right. All the less you need is on the screen, bro. Post up file.
Now you shoot in free throws. OK, social media breakdown. Post the file is posting a picture. Post up a picture, free throws, take your shots.
People shoot taking shots in the DM, right? So shoot your shot, whatever. So post up file. Now you shoot in free throws.
So remember, this started off with the enemy playing defense, the enemy auto lust you need is on the screen, bro. On that post up file. Now you shoot in free throws. So basketball breakdown, post up file.
You set a screen, post up, get the right file. Now you shoot in free throws. Whoo. OK, I love doing this.
I know y'all don't care. But I love it. Post up file. Now you shoot in free throws.
What'd I say? Hold on. All the less you need is on the screen, bro. Post up file.
Now you shoot in free throws. Turn the crowd down. Focus on your team. Coach, all I see is all lies on me.
OK, turn the crowd down. Focus on your team. When you shoot in free throws in basketball, right? That's when it's a distraction.
If you were a way they make a noise, it's like turn the crowd down. Focus on your team. So the untimes are there. From the other way, it's like, OK, you online, you scrolling.
They posting files. They cute. Oh, don't shoot up. Turn the crowd down.
All that noise. All them people turn that down. Focus on your team, your relationship, your marriage, your life. That's kind of what is up.
And it says, Coach, all I see is all lies on me. And it's really like that pressure of when you when you shoot in a free throw, right? And basketball, that's that pressure that all eyes are on you. In the world today, social media, all that, and everybody's need for attention, it's that it's that people, when they feel like they're getting attention, can get drawn away.
And a lot of times, that's what comes up with relationships. That's what comes up in our relationship with God. It's like, yo, I'm just like, I'm allowing myself to get caught up in a world that I shouldn't even be in. All right, so that was the whole breakdown of that first part of that song.
And I might leave you all with that. Let's see what else I'll say. I'm about to walk around and something like I'm the man. I'm about to walk around like I ain't never said.
I can't never lost. Although I have some wins. If I try to keep that image, it will get to my chagrin. Unplug from the Matrix Follow Trinity.
All right, I'm gonna say this and I'm gonna be out of here. I'm gonna just go to that last line. Unplug from the Matrix Follow Trinity. Everything before that I was talking about how you could be walking around front and you can allow yourself to get caught up in the fakeness of trying to live up to some image for other people.
And it ultimately is like unplug from the Matrix Follow Trinity. The Matrix is the social media that we were talking about. It's like unplug from that and follow God. And then in the movie, The Matrix, right?
When they were, there are times that Neo unplug, when they come from the Matrix Trinity was his girl. And that's when he was following, cause she was also kind of like his trainer or his lead when they started off. So it's like unplug from the Matrix Follow Trinity, talking about following Christ and getting away from all these distractions, but also just throwing in what was one of my favorite movies I want time in The Matrix. So hopefully you've enjoyed this episode.
Hopefully you will go and listen to my album, This Time is Different by J Will Music. And maybe now you will have a deeper appreciation for the song turned to, but hopefully above all, you are inspired and encouraged to follow God on your walk and eliminate distractions. Do What God has called you to do. Thank you so much for watching and listening.
Y'all having an amazing, amazing, amazing day. All right, that's what we gonna do, y'all.