Words Of Encouragement To Start The Day ( Monday 4/27/09)

Today's Devotional is Written By A Young Lady Being Called Into Her Season, Tracy Koweh....

Not Worth My Tears…………..

Revelation 21:4 (Amplified Bible)

⁴God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall be no more, neither shall there be anguish (sorrow and mourning) nor grief nor pain any more, for the old conditions and the former order of things have passed away.

Today starts another message in the music marathon week. This week each
song will be by Mary J Blige. Starting off the week is “Not Goin Cry”.
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Anybody who knows me longer than a week, knows that I’m a huge cry baby. If
someone I don’t know is crying, I’ll start crying. Well, a few weeks ago
something happened in my life that I thought would break me and destroy me
for awhile, but it didn’t. Yeah, it hurt and it hurt really bad but I
didn’t cry. I couldn’t cry. My body wouldn’t let me cry.

I told Lisa I didn’t feel right about it all. I felt like I needed to cry,
like I suppose to cry, in order to get past it. Like always, she told me to
seek God and pray. So I did, and He showed me how over the years and
experiences I’d been through I had grown into a stronger woman. Not that
crying in any way is a sign of weakness. I believe crying is very healing
and necessary at times. But I also think that sometimes we waste our tears
on people and situations that are not deserving of them.

We sulk and cry over loves lost, dreams deferred, and hopes haulted, when
sometimes none of the listed were ever in God’s plan for us. In the movie
this song was about Angela Bassett’s husband of ?? years had left her for
another woman. She went through weeks of depression, anger and regret and
for what. It didn’t change the situation or the outcome. It wasn’t until
she decided to get back up again and choose life. She wasn’t dealt the
nicest hand of cards but she changed the way she played them. In the end
she was blessed far beyond anything she could have ever imagined.

Maybe God is trying to remove sometimes in your life that you don’t have
the strength to let go of on your own. Maybe over the years He has been
preparing for such a time as now. Every little victory was designed so that
you could win this battle. So as we start another week, let’s declare in
our hearts to stop wasting tears on things that are no good for us.
Remember, anything or anyone worth crying over……………………..won’t cause you to
cry.