We Fall Down and We Get Up…

Before leaving on my run this morning, I asked God to reveal whatever He wanted me to hear today! He has been teaching me different life lessons through my running and today was no different, though it would have been nice to learn this lesson without it being so literal! I was about 3 minutes into my run, when I recall my phone leaving my hand and I slowly began to get closer to the cement…I actually had a moment to think about what was happening and what ran through my mind was…I am falling and there is really nothing I can do to stop this from happening…at that moment my knee scraped against the cement and my wrist did the same. I got up and my first thought was…well guess that does it for my run this morning…Really Cindy, you are going to give up that quickly…so I checked out my injuries, squirted some water on them and I finished my run, asking God to just help me finish…He did that and more…He taught me another life lesson…In life we will fall down, but He is right there to pick us back up. In 2 Corinthians 4:8-10 it says, “We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair. We are hunted down, but never abandoned by God. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed. Through suffering, our bodies continue to share in the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be seen in our bodies.” When you get knocked down…don’t let the enemy have his way…allow God to get you back up!


Evidence of my lesson today....