Often in life we run into obstacles here and there that send us flying with our face in the sand. A choice not many people would make on purpose I'm sure. The choice of dirt in the face, sand in the hair, and all sorts of doubts on whether we would ever be able to get up and try again, definitely doesn't make a good list to choose from.
Thanks to Jesus in our lives we can get back up, whether our initial landing was soft or hard as He takes our hand and helps us up as Marissa needed to be helped up. However, we do need to do our part and be willing to go on with life and try again. Another log or obstacle may come along but we still have the same choice, lay there and let life stomp all over us or get up and dust off our clothes and keep on trying.
There's going to be times when staying down seems like a good option, a safe place, something that quarantees we wouldn't fall again because we're already down. Wrong thought, bad attitude. All that gets us is more sand in our face. The only way we are going to win is to be able to stand up and fight and not give in to Satan and his ways. God supplies the strength, we need to supply the willpower to do what we need to do and stop wishing for a soft landing, but a great take-off with Jesus as the head pilot in our life.
Copyright 2008 Marissa and Karen J. Gillett @ Pencil Marks and Recipes Publishing
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