I know you’re wondering how you can stop yourself from being setup, well that’s easy. Stop allowing yourself to be in a place to be setup. Yea, you sit up and listen to Pastor Get Them who keeps telling you to sow a seed of $100 every Sunday and God will bless you when you know good and well that God ain’t (yep ain’t) told you to give all your bill money. Let me make this clear; I don’t have a problem with you sowing a seed for the building up of God’s house but don’t keep being played. Afterwards, you’re mad at God for not coming when the landlord comes knocking but it was the Pastor who set you up for disappointment. Oh, you’ve met the man of your dreams and he has promised he would be everything you need until you come up pregnant or stop filling his pockets with your check on Fridays and now, again, you’re mad at God but baby it’s not God’s fault because you set yourself up for this heartbreak especially if you got him out of the bed of somebody else. Yea, stop being setup. You’ve been praying for a new job and you won’t wait until God sends your blessing so you keep doing all the things the folks at the job tell you to do. They ask you to fill in at the position that was recently vacated and after months of filling in, they hire someone else and now you’re mad enough to quit when you should have seen the setup in the beginning.
When God sets you up, it’s in a way that you can’t be disappointed, hurt, knocked down or stepped on. Stop allowing folks to set you up! Stop allowing them so called friends to set you up to leave the house looking a mess when you have a mirror, look at yourself and if you aren’t comfortable with it, say something. Stop allowing that girl to set you up to be broke when you knew you couldn’t afford all the things she was asking for in the first place; say no. Stop allowing him or her to set you up to be the one crying yourself to sleep. If he or she has shown you once they’re capable of hurting you and they haven’t changed; it’ll happen again. Stop being setup! If it doesn’t feel right, if it doesn’t taste right, if it doesn’t smell right, if it doesn’t look right, if it doesn’t walk right, if it doesn’t talk right, if it doesn’t touch you right, if it doesn’t make you laugh right and if it don’t make you walk, talk, look or even smell right; then it probably ain’t right. You have eyes, open them and see. You have ears, use them to hear. You have hands, close them and stop accepting mess. You have feet, use them and walk away. You have a heart and mind that can feel and understand so use it and stop allowing yourself to be setup only to be let down. Yea, you can stop being setup only to be upset {same letters} if you stop being setup to be upset! (You’ll get that later!)
Lakisha, the Author 