We Fall Down....We Get Up! Micah 7:8

Bob Carlisle sang a song several years ago called, "We Fall Down, We Get Up." It's about a man that walks past a monastery each day thinking how miserable his life is and how blessed it must be to live in such a perfect place as what exists behind the monastery walls. Then one day he sees a priest and asks him a question about the life they lead inside the walls. Here is an excerpt from that song:

And he wondered how it would be to live in such a place

To be warm, well fed and at peace, to shut the world away

So when he saw a priest who walked, for once, beyond the iron gate

He said, "Tell me of your life inside the place", and the priest replied

We fall down, we get up, we fall down, we get up

We fall down, we get up

And the saints are just the sinners

Who fall down and get up

This song always reminds me of my favorite scripture, Micah 7:8

We all stumble and fall, that's no surprise. It's the getting back up that matters!

We fall down, we get up
We fall down, we get up
And the saints are just the sinners
Who fall down and get up.

Micah 7:8 has carried me through many dark days and heartbreaking trials. Times of misunderstandings, deep sorrows and more often than not, just plain old mistakes on my part.

You see, I believe we are born into the KINGDOM on a ladder so to speak.  We start out as newborn babes, just learning to crawl, then walk and talk, ever growing, ever climbing. We don't start out at the top, we start at the bottom of the ladder and we start climbing. As we climb, there will be times that our foot slips on a rung of the ladder. 

Now, here's the important part....if you were painting your house or working on the gutters, etc and you had to use a ladder to climb....if your foot slipped, you would steady yourself, get your bearings, catch your breath and keep right on climbing. You have to make it to the top! You wouldn't get completely off the ladder each time your foot slipped. You'd never advance very far up the ladder if you went on in that manner, you'd never make it to the top.

If we're not careful, this is exactly what we do, we slip and we give up, get completely off the ladder and have to start all over again. This has never been GOD's plan. HE knows we are but flesh, HE knows our feet will slip at times. HE has made provision for this.

1 John 2:1  My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the FATHER, JESUS CHRIST the righteous.

Did you know GOD could speak through a cough drop wrapper? HE can. Actually, HE can speak any way HE wants to. HE's the BOSS!

Dust Off and Get Up!

Don't let the enemy have a reason to rejoice over you. Learn to quote Micah 7:8 and let him know that there is no reason to rejoice because you will arise and no matter how dark it seems, the LORD will be a light unto you!

Walk in confidence that HE loves you and HE will always be there to help you hold your place until you can start climbing once more!


patti