Another HARD week. It’s just part of life. HARD. Long week at work. College finals week. Family life. Just absolutely difficult, challenging, tough, rigorous, demanding, formidable (and other synonyms) <HARD>
In this life, you’re not going to survive soft. Look around; antidepressants growing, serotonin levels dropping, dopamine levels artificial. The world as you know it is a game of smoke and mirrors.
Social media_ where you go to only show your best and judge other’s best. Cell phone_ literally first word is a synonym with a room in prison.
Prisoners to our own flesh, this dark world, and one hated enemy.
You are falling, have fallen, or are going to fall.
Falls can be small, big, minor or in my case absolutely devastating to you, your family, your church and even community. The fall that I took has had some impact on every single facet of my life. Not one area has gone unaffected.
the fall -It’s horrible. The hardest part of the entire process. However, life isn’t bout what happens to you, it is all about your reaction. Sir Isaac Newton’s Third Law of Motion was “for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction”. If only this law of motion applied to all aspects of life. Whatever happens, there is an equal and opposite reaction? If someone makes you really super duper angry, you react equally and opposite by becoming one of those fake xanax driven soccer mom’s where there’s always a spot up front? (Quote taken from Mom’s Night Out). Probably one of the most annoying movie characters ever created. That movie is probably streaming. Watch it with your wife. Right now.
If only for every fall, there was an equal and opposite reaction. That would be nice. We wouldn’t be scared of falling. The reaction would put us right back where we were supposed to be. However, that isn’t the case. Sometimes people fall. They fall into darkness. Sin. Failure. Substance abuse. Violence. Anger. Depression. They fall and fall and fall. People turn their nose on them. They never rise. They fall and stay fallen without hope until one day…. they die. The End.
That is 100% true for some. But brother, I am telling you today, that doesn’t have to be your story.
‘I get knocked down, but I get up again. You’re never gonna keep me down’ Congratulations on having that stuck in your head now. The song ‘tubthumping’ by the oh so famous band Chumbawamba. Yes. Look it up. Maybe that is where Allan “Boff” Whalley got the inspiration for the song. One day reading Proverbs, “Hey Fellas! Listen to this song idea!”
Doubtful, but maybe there is a possibility somewhere. Ha.
How many times are you going to fall? Once? Ten times? A thousand times? You realize you could literally fall 1,000,000 times but “And Rise Again“. If someone fell once, and never “Rise again” the one who fell a million times would be in better standing than the one who never got up!
Get out of the pit! You don’t have to stay there! RISE AGAIN
Life is not about the fall; it’s all about the RISE.
So What’s it going to be? You going to stay down? You going to let the enemy win? he’s celebrating a victory right now for you reading this. But pay close attention to this next verse.
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