Daily Devotional – 11/26/11 “Sweep around your own front door”

I wonder if you feel or look better when you talk about me, but child I’m not worried because I am covered by the blood you see. 

I don’t have to try to fit in with the world to be all cool, because God promised in his word, that he’ll make my enemies my footstool. 

You do know what that is, a footstool, I mean? Oh, well it allows me to reach things higher than you and I don’t even have to lean. 

God has placed a shield around me to protect from folk like you, when you always gossip and lie, it seems that’s all you do. 

You’re always throwing rocks and then running to hide your face, but baby I suggest you get yourself together before it’s too late. 

Stop worrying about what I have sitting on my front porch or the leaves in my yard, because if you want something to fix, look at home, you won’t have to look far.

I don’t have to worry about the bones you have buried in your backyard because I have my own, the same way you don’t have to worry about what I reap, because if I reap it, it’ll be sown.

You don’t have to drag my name through the dirt in order to make yourself look good, because you’ll be blessed just like me if you do what you should. 

Stop digging ditches for me by scandalizing my name, because I have struggles and strife too; it’s hard playing the world’s game,

If you took as much time minding your business as you do mine, then you’d be able to do more God work and let your light so shine.

But instead you find fault in belittling your sister and brother, whom God says you should love, but you’ve allowed the devil to put his hands around your neck tighter than a glove.

Yea, you call yourself a Christian when it is convenient for you, but even the devil studied and he knows God’s word too.

So, don’t be fast to sweep my front or back door, when you got chaos, backbiting, and judging laying all over your floor. 

Clean up your own house sometimes and then invite me in, but don’t expect me to join in with you in your daily sin.

Yes, I make mistakes too because I’m not perfect but a work in progress; so I don’t need your messy self adding to my stress. 

So when you feel the need to peek through the hole in my fence to see my mistakes and faults, I hope you have your eyes closed when God starts throwing salt.

See, he is the only way that is able to make you pay for the things you try to do, so I am not worried about the things you try to put me through.

You can continue to talk, spread lies and drag my name through the dirt, because you won’t have a bearing on where I go when I leave this earth.

God has promised me an eternal home in paradise, one that he has built; so I’ll continue to let you be you and I’ll be free from guilt.

So clean your yard before you try to jump the fence into mine, because you may just trip coming over and then what will you find?

Sweep around your own front door before you try to sweep around mine, all the time may be taken cleaning yours, because there is no telling what you’ll find.