I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up!

Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light. Micah 7:8

I'm in a season of falling. Actually, that's kind of normal for me.

I'm known for tripping over curbs, falling down stairs...

I even fell over a tombstone once. But that's a story for another time.

Mom says I was born upside down and backwards, so it's her fault. 

But that's not the kind of falling I'm talking about.

I stub my toe on disappointment.

I trip over discouragement.

Frustration is as slippery as a banana peel.

But, as I sit here, on my...um... derriere, I remember this truth:

Yes, I've fallen, but I will get up!

God's presence gives my life stability.

I'm not very good at watching where I'm going.

 

I just skip along, falling over any emotion the enemy throws in my path.

 

But, every time, God reaches out His hand and says, "Let Me help you up."

 

As hard as I try to pull down the shades and sit in the dark, His light bursts through.

 

 

When I allow darkness to pour down around me, God says, "I'm here and there is no darkness in Me."

 

Hope, peace, joy...these things flood my life with the Light of God's presence.

 

Praise Him! He's not only the Light of the world, He's the Light of my heart.

 

 

Have you fallen lately? How did God reach down and pick you up?
 

When did you last praise Him for His light?

 

 

 

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Afraid of the Dark?

 

 

It's dark!

 

There are monsters in the closet, I know there are.

 

My Dad looked inside and told me the closet was empty.

 

But I know they're there. They're magical and their invisible to grown-ups.

 

When I was a child, I hid under the covers on my bed and clinched a flashlight in my hands, trusting its weak glow to keep evil at bay.

I'm all grown-up now, but I'm still afraid of the dark: fear, anger, frustration, all lurk in the shadows.  Childhood flashlights don't work...but what will?

Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path. Psalm 119:105



That's easy, I thought.

So I sat in the mornings with my Bible in my lap; my eyes rolled over words my brain didn't see. I mentally raced through a few verses I remembered from Bible Drill. Then I leaped up and headed out the door.

 

But darkness still came:  disappointment, insecurity, impatience. Perplexed, I read those words again. My eyes focused on the word lamp. A lamp sits on a table and you turn it on and off, right?

 

Wait, turn it on and off. For a lamp to shine light on my fear and anger, I have to chose to turn it on.

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Chose to read God's Word,
not just scan it.

Chose to store it's truths

in my mind.

Chose to call on His truth  

to shed light on my thoughts and dispel disappointment and insecurity. 

 

Your Word is a lamp... If I want light to shine around my feet as I walk, I have carry His Word with me.  If I hold onto His truths, my feet won't stumble on the rocks in my path.

 

 

How has God's Word brightened your path?