Fall and Rise

UV 3217/10000 Fall and Rise
Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me.

Micah 7 v 8

When the enemy gloats over the sight of our apparent defeat, the Lord helps us rise to our feet again. He is the source of our persistence, our resilience, our fortitude. He revives us and reinvigorates us. We experience the reality and power of the grace, compassion and righteousness of God in these moments of failure or defeat. We come to understand that His favour is upon us as He does not allow our enemies to triumph over us.

The light of the Lord, implying His love and His word , shines on us in our darkest moments. It imparts to us the wisdom and the strength to rise again. We only need to look to Him in prayer, wait expectantly and the Lord will surely hear us. He will rush to our assistance. We may fall multiple times but each time the Lord helps us rise up again. Each time we fall, we bounce back stronger than before, stronger in faith. Falling or failures or setbacks are therefore, very valuable in the lives of believers for from these we acquire spiritual dross-free gold- faith. The more we accumulate of such faith the better , the more blessed, the more resilient and effective we will be.

Instead of our enemies rejoicing over us, we will be the ones to rejoice in the salvation of the Lord. However gloomy our situation, we need to hold onto the glimmer of hope we have in the Lord. Instead of resenting such hardship, we begin to develop a joyful perspective when we undergo such setbacks and pitfalls. While history of the world and its people are written in terms of rise and fall, in our case it is written in terms of fall and rise. The higher they rise, the bigger the fall while, the greater the fall, the higher the man of faith rise.