Keep in mind that it is not honorable by worldly standards to be a prophet. Prophets speak God’s mind to people who usually don’t want to hear it, so their presence is oftentimes not welcome. Prophets are not perfect, not without sin and, since they speak God’s Spirit-based truth, they needn’t be particularly eloquent or intellectually savvy either. As with every other area of God’s kingdom, He uses unexpected people to convey His spiritual realities. Religious experts would like to think that prophets possess a super-spiritual glow while they make lots of dramatic gestures as in Michelangelo’s paintings. But that is much too impractical. Prophetic people, as well as anyone else God uses, are regular people, intended by God to fill a practical, spiritual purpose. With Hill’s first album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, she communicated a variety of spiritual truth by a means that people could understand: Music. This is black leather guitar strap prophetic. One particular track, “To Zion,” illustrates a powerful parallel between her own potentially “inconvenient” pregnancy and the pregnancy of Mary with Jesus, which was certainly inconvenient. According to the song, this pregnancy could not have helped Hill’s career, but she kept the baby anyway and named him “Zion.” Zion embodies salvation and hope in the minds of Jewish people, who are God’s people. Hill trusted God with her pregnancy and God worked out her circumstances for something greater than she previously imagined. Mary trusted God and He worked it out for the salvation of the whole world. Other songs on Hill’s Miseducation album touch on godly themes as well, especially the last track, which quoted First Corinthians chapter 13 almost word for word. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill sold millions and millions and won her like hundred Grammies (or at least more than anyone else had ever gotten at one time).