"My cultural practices were seen as superstitious or primitive by the educated people around me."
How it sounds in your head: They looked down on my traditions, my remedies, my customs. Made me feel backward and ignorant. I hid parts of myself for decades to seem educated enough. Now I'm old and I abandoned what was mine to be acceptable to them.
"But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty."
-- 1 Corinthians 1:27Religion + world using intellectualism to shame what God created as DIVERSE WISDOM.
He experienced real condescension from educated elites. His traditional knowledge was mocked or dismissed as inferior to Western frameworks.
Naaman was a Syrian commander with leprosy who mocked the prophet's simple remedy—dip in the Jordan seven times. When he humbled himself to the 'primitive' instruction, INSTANT healing came, proving simple cultural practice carried more power than sophisticated medicine.
I REFUSE the lie that my cultural traditions were primitive or inferior. IT IS WRITTEN: God chose the foolish things to shame the wise. What intellectuals mocked, Heaven HONORED as diverse wisdom. My traditions carried knowledge that education couldn't see. IT IS WRITTEN: The wisdom of the world is foolishness to God. I was never backward—I was UNIQUE by design. What I hid to be acceptable was part of God's creative glory. My cultural practices mattered then and they matter now.
The Father never saw your traditions as primitive. He wove diverse wisdom into every culture as a reflection of His infinite creativity—what the educated dismissed, He treasures as part of the FULLNESS of human expression He designed.