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GET UP AGAIN
Did you fall yesterday? Perhaps you yelled at the children or got angry with your husband. You may have blown it already this morning. You feel terrible. You didn't want to do it.
Dear friend, don't stay in the doldrums of self-pity. God is with you to lift you up again. He knows you are frail. He is a loving Father. In fact, our parenting instincts come from God. What do you do when your little ones are learning to walk? You stretch out your arms and encourage them to walk to you. But they fall. Are you disappointed? No, you pick them up and encourage them again, until eventually they run into your arms.
This is the attitude God has to you. Psalm 37:23, 24 says: "The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delights in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord upholds him with his hand."
When you fall, He says to you: "Come on, get up again. I am with you. I am helping you. You are not doing this on your own." He waits with open arms for you to walk into His arms, into His strength and His enabling. He woos you to little by little change into the image of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 8:29).
Proverbs 14: 16 says: "The just man falls seven times, and rises up again."
Blessings to you in your home today, Nancy Campbell
