We Fall Down!

I fell the other day, which isn’t unusual for me, but I was all alone and I fell HARD! There were people within earshot but I didn't call out to them, and even though everything I was carrying crashed to the floor no one seemed to hear the commotion. So, I just lay there for a moment, one shoe on and one off, pain searing through my knee and arm and feeling a little bit embarrassed. I mean, really!  Who falls off the very last step and nearly breaks their neck?  Me!  After I got my pride in check, I slowly began to lift myself up so that I could limp my way on to my destination.  I left most of what I was carrying on the floor, because at that moment, it wasn’t important so I gathered only what I needed. Anything else would have been extra weight that I couldn’t handle.

My friend, in life, we all fall—HARD! And often we are either in too much pain, or we’re too embarrassed to cry out for help. What is important is that when you fall, you don’t stay there!  Get back up, brush yourself off and limp, crawl or hobble your way on to your destination.

The next day, I had plenty of proof that I had been hurt.  I had a bruised, swollen knee, swollen ankle and my pinkie toe hurt like a dickens!  Did I mention that there were spikes on my shoes and one dug deep into my foot?  Falling, failure, fights, almost always leave evidence that we’ve encountered them, whether it’s a visible scar or not, the reminder is surely there.

I want you to know that in every situation, God sees you, He’s there to help you and He will heal the pain.  All we have to do is ask Him.  When I fell, I didn’t call out for help but when I got to my destination, I sent a message to my husband and an armor bearer and they brought me what I needed and cleaned the mess of the fall.  That’s what God wants to do for you…leave the brokenness, pain, and misfortune of your failure behind.  Leave it for Him, He’ll not only clean it up, but He will also clean you up!  Rejoice in the moment, don’t lay there like the old lady in the commercial and say, “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!”  Do like I did, when my husband came to my rescue, I leaned on him for the rest of the day.  You can lean on God for the rest of your days.  Lean, my friend…”We fall down, but we get up!”

Philippians 3:13-14—Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended it, but this one thing I do: forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.