It's worth repeating "We lose our way, We get back up again. It's never too late to get back up again. One day, you're gonna shine again. You may be knocked down, but not out forever." (TobyMac, "Get Back Up", Tonight)
Music gets me going. I thank God for music all the time!! There is such emotion, such feeling, such power in music, as there should be, since God created music!
This song by TobyMac has been playing in my house for the last couple days, my car for the last week, and I must admit I have found myself smiling inside an out when I sing it, and even dancing a little!
When our lives are in Christ, when we are found in Him, when we surrender to Him, we will always get back up from being knocked down. When we lose our way, He will get us back on track again.
In Micah 7, starting in verse 8, is one of my favorite verses of Scripture: "Don't, enemy, crow over me. I'm down, but I'm not out. I'm sitting in the dark right now, but God is my light. I can take God's punishing rage. I deserve it--I sinned. But it's not forever. He's on my side and is going to get me out of this. He'll turn on the lights and show me His ways. I'll see the whole picture and how right he is. And my enemy will see it, too, and be discredited--yes, disgraced! This enemy who kept taunting, 'So where is the God of yours?' I'm going to see it with these, my own eyes-- my enemy disgraced, trash in the gutter."
Wow!! Some of us need to get loud with our enemy today, and let him know that we are going to get back up. We may be going through a trial right now, we may be in waiting mode, we may be going through doubt and pain, we may be benched for a time for our own sins, but we are going to shine again! There is hope for us--but not for our enemy. Someday he will get what has been coming to him for so long!
Hold on to Jesus today and to His promises for your life!
Psalm 13 gives a great account of what to do when you you've fallen down somehow. Starting at the end of verse 2, "Long enough my arrogant enemies have looked down their noses at me. (LONG ENOUGH--NO MORE!) Take a good look at me, God, my God, I want to look life in the eye, So no enemy can get the best of me or laugh when I fall on my face. (notice: "when" i fall on my face..you will fall on your face sometimes, but the enemy better not laugh, because you will get up stronger!) I've thrown myself headlong into your arms--I'm celebrating your rescue. I'm singing at the top of my lungs, I'm so full of answered prayers."
The end of that passage tells us what to do: Throw yourself right into Jesus' arms, Celebrate that He has rescued you, Sing praises at the top of your lungs (loud enough for your enemy to hear and for you to get it!), and thank God for answered prayers! Wow!! There's a great prescription for when you fall down...
If you haven't heard the song "Get Back Up" by Tobymac, that would be a great song to start singing OUT LOUD... you may even find yourself starting to smile inside and out... and maybe, just maybe, the beat might get to you, and you might start dancing a little... (in the privacy of your own home, of course...ha!!)
At any rate, if you find yourself down low, or lost, or broken, you will GET BACK UP AGAIN!
Blessings!
1 comment:
Hi Amanda! Great stuff as always. I've always told students that "If you fall, fall on your back. Cause when you fall on your back it means you're looking up. That ability to look up can and should give you the inspiration to get up!"
Christians are by nature fighters, battlers, and contenders for all things holy. We will get knocked down by the "swings of life" from time to time. Yet, our determination to get up must be rooted in our Savior that never stayed down!
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