Words Of Encouragement To Start The Day ( Friday 5/22/09)

Today's Devotional Written By A Devoted and Inspired Young Woman...Tracy Koweh

Psalm 89:17-18 (New Living Translation)

 ¹⁷ You are their glorious strength.
      It pleases you to make us strong.
 ¹⁸ Yes, our protection comes from the Lord,
      and he, the Holy One of Israel, has given us our king.

Clark Kent Physique, but Superman Strength

 

I have a co-worker who is from the streets of Compton and boy does her past live up to everything I’d ever heard about that place. She is a beautiful black woman and strong in her in beliefs and values. She has been David in previous relationships that forced her to take down Goliath. There isn’t much that scares or shakes her. She is not intimated but anyone’s rank, position, title or education. She is secure in the woman, wife and mother God created her to be………………….but the sight of a baby spider will send her running.

 

It’s funny that no matter how big and bad we are, we all have our kypronite, but with God by our side we can accomplish all things. Last night as I prepared to write this blog I was so tired. Not sleepy tired but drained with the cares of the world. Most days I can do the full-time work thing, come home and do the full-time single mom to a two year old, and it not phase me. But there are those nights when I feel like I just can’t do it any more. The dishes have piled up, Jaida is destroying one room- -- -just as I’m finishing cleaning another, I have to pack her stuff for tomorrow, take out the trash, and get ready for work ……..and all by myself.

 

So just as I was ready to get down with my sad self, and throw a pity party. The Lord showed me that I was by myself, only cause I had chosen to be. The Bible says that He will never leave nor forsake us so that means- - -we are the ones who leave. That’s when I decided that even though I have a Clark Kent physique on the outside, I have Superman strength dwelling on the inside because “greater is He that is in me, than he that is in this world.”

 

Life is not always going to be the fairy tale we had envisioned it would be, but it doesn’t have to be a miserable one either. As we head into this holiday weekend, let a kiss from the Prince of Peace revive us and send us into our happily ever after.