Daily Devotional – 6/7/13 “Looking like you looking!”

Yea, look at you; looking like you’re looking. See, folk could see the stains from the tears you cried all night but they don’t because God woke you up this morning, in your right mind so that you could get yourself together so instead they see your smile. Yea, folks could see you struggling because you’re tired from pacing all night but God gave you the strength to shake it off and instead they see your joy. Folk could see the pain in your heart from it being broken by that so called love, from being talked about by family, from being misused by coworkers and hurt by church folk but God works on the inside of you every day to mend what men breaks so instead we see the love you have for others. Oh, look at you looking like you looking! Yes, folks could see the scars from being stabbed in the back from folks who promised to do you no harm, they could see the scars on your knees from the constant prayer you have to do to maintain, they could see the scars on the front on you from being drug to hell and back on your good day, they could see the marks on your shoulders from carrying the weight of the world or they could see the scars on your feet from standing on them for 12 hours trying to provide for your family; however, but, nonetheless, God picks you up every time you get knocked down, dusts you off and stands you back up right so that all folks see is the God in you that allows you to continue to go on. Yea, look at cha! Chile, God got you in this thang and if He wanted to take you out of it, He would have by now so you go ahead and look like you looking because it could be worse. You could look like the pain you feel, you could look like your past mistakes, you could look like those names they call you, you could look like the nobody folk said you’d be, you could look like the nothing folk said you’d do in life, you could look like that statistic society has deemed you, you could look like that crack that should have taken your life, you could look like all the mess you’ve encountered BUT YOU DON’T! Because God has you looking like you’re looking and it looks pretty good to me!