If you have ever seen a child learning to walk, you know that falling down is an important part of the process. Getting back up again is crucial to developing the child\u2019s balance and muscle development. Likewise, a boxer isn\u2019t disqualified because he gets knocked down; he\u2019s disqualified because he doesn\u2019t get back up. Boxers know they will go down, so they focus on the art of falling safely and getting up quickly. Children and boxers both learn this: it\u2019s all about getting up again. <\/p>\n
The Bible tells us that falling is common to both the righteous and unrighteous. It\u2019s getting up again that sets them apart: \u2018If good people fall\u2026 they will get back up. But when trouble strikes the wicked, that\u2019s the end of them.\u2019<\/i> (Proverbs\u00a024:16\u00a0CEV) The unrighteous stay down\u2014the righteous get up again! <\/p>\n
In Scripture, some of God\u2019s greatest servants fell into personal failure. Abram lied to Pharaoh about his wife, Sarai (see\u00a0Genesis\u00a012:11\u201317). Jacob deceived his father and stole his brother\u2019s birth-right (see\u00a0Genesis\u00a027:17\u201329). In anger, Moses disobeyed God by striking the rock (see\u00a0Numbers\u00a020:7\u201312). Yet instead of being disqualified, they \u2018were all commended for their faith.\u2019<\/i> (Hebrews\u00a011:39\u00a0NIV) <\/p>\n
How come? Because they acknowledged their sin and received God\u2019s forgiveness. In other words, they fell, but they got up again. And when you fall, you can get up again too. That\u2019s the \u2018faith\u2019 part of your journey. Staying down is failure accepted<\/i>\u2014getting back up is faith activated<\/i>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If you have ever seen a child learning to walk, you know that falling down is an important part of the process. Getting back up again is crucial to developing the child\u2019s balance and muscle development. Likewise, a boxer isn\u2019t disqualified because he gets knocked down; he\u2019s disqualified because he doesn\u2019t get back up. Boxers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}