By: Monique Smith
Hey
folks! The title comes from a Trip Lee song entitled, No worries, I rocks with
it! : ) Anyways, as I was reading my Word in 1 Peter 3, verse 14 stuck out to
me. I wrote a note to myself about it,
so I decided to turn that into a devotional! The Word tells us, “…even if you
should suffer for righteousness, you are blessed. Do not fear what they fear or
be disturbed.” This immediately made me
think about the philosophy my mother instilled in me as a youngin’,
“Monique, don’t worry about these things going
on in the world. If you gonna trust
in God, then trust in Him. Those people aren’t like us! God is going to take care of us! Watch and see!”
I
specifically remember her saying this back in ’96 during Hurricane Fran (wave
ya hand in tha air at me if you remember Fran! She won’t no joke!). I remember
listening to the weather and being scared out of my mind! Telling mama we
needed to flee and go to another state to be safe. Mama then dropped that nugget of wisdom on me,
and I’ve been living by that statement ever since. I don’t fear bad weather. I
don’t fear recessions. The stock market crashing doesn’t scare me. Why? Because
my mama AND the Word tells me so!
So
to go back to the Word, in life, even if we have the utmost faith in God, we
may go through tough situations and suffer at times (even during Fran, our
trees were knocked down and electricity off like the rest of folks), but God
will still bless us in that (My family's house was still in tack and all of my
other family members still had everything in tack). God did not give us the spirit of fear but
the enemy wants us to adopt that characteristic SO bad! In all walks of our
life, there is something we can choose to be scared about, even in our choice
of entertainment, we can choose to watch movies that scare us. But I want to
encourage you all to take a second look at whose you are and realize that God
doesn’t want us to adopt those ways contrary to Him, but wants us to live a
life of faith and truth!
Prayer: God! You are the
best Daddy EVER! Thank you so much for having my back, front, side, and all my
other body parts in between! You are so amazing! Help me to not sweat the small
things and build my trust and my faith in your ability to provide and protect
me as well as my family! God I love you and I thank you! In Jesus name, amen.
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