We Fall Down But...

We fall down, but we get up, we fall down, but we get up....for a saint is just a sinner who fell down, and got up." As I listened to these words sung by Donnie McClurkin as a tribute to Steve Harvey on the Celebration of Gospel last night, I forgot how powerful this song really was. I've heard this song so many times; Ive even choreographed a dance off this song for a church dance group. When the song was first released several years ago, the words were powerful and touching to me, but as it was severely overplayed shortly after its debut, it became just another song to me. But tonight was different; I was touched by this song like when I heard it the first time, but not just the song, but the lyrics and what it means in terms of our Christian walk.

You know what I have discovered? It is so easy to fall down. Let's face it, the concept of "falling" goes right along with the laws of gravity that many of us have learned in basic physics class. When an object is in the midst of a fall, we do not have to do anything to aid it to keep falling. It falls just fine by itself. Gravity is pulling it down. No help needed in falling at all. It is the getting back up to the place where the object fell from, where help is needed.

That is so true for us as we go along our Christian walk. It is so easy for us to fall, so easy for us to get caught up in the things of this world. It is so easy for us to do any and everything that we know that is wrong. It seems like doing wrong is never a struggle. We start "falling" and it seems like "gravity"(aka sin) itself continues to pull us down. We tend to have to hit the "ground" hard before we know and realize that we need help with the hardest part, and that is getting back up.

In Psalm 40:2, the psalmist writes, "He also brought me out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and stand my feet upon a rock." It is only God himself that can help us when we fall. He can pull us through each and every situation that goes on in our lives, no matter how much we have fallen. We just need to realize...we cannot get up by ourselves! It is like that object getting back to the place that it fell from by itself. Not gonna happen!It needs help. So do we. We need help in getting us back to the place where we fell from. God is the only one that can do that for us. He is the only one strong and powerful enough to do that for us. But we do still have a choice in the matter, we can choose to get up or not.

We know in life we WILL fall down. It is a guarantee. But do we allow God to help us get up? Call out to Him and he can help you "get up" today. "Because a saint is just a sinner who fell down.....and got up."