When I first heard Donnie McClurkin's song, "We Fall Down (But We Get Up), I got goosebumps. The second time I heard it I loved it even more. There is a Gospel House remix of
song that is simply off hook.The reason I felt that this song was so powerful is because lyrics are so right on time that it's ridiculous.
Just think about this for a moment:
We Fall Down.
How many times have you done something in your past that you weren't too happy about?
It could be anything.
Let's say that you are an addicted person. You may be addicted to drugs, or alcohol or wrong type of man. Perhaps you are addicted to stressful jobs that bring you little pay.
It doesn't matter what circumstances may be. Hey, it doesn't even have to be that harsh.
Perhaps you have tried to start your own business or create something in your life where you could make a living doing something you are passionate about and it failed, so you gave up. It doesn't really matter. But every time you turn around, you are falling victim to same thing over and over again.
Hey, it happens--We Fall Down.
But good thing about it is We Get Up.
Just because you fell down doesn't mean you have to STAY down.
Get up!
Why are you still sitting there?
We all make mistakes. But great part about it is that God allows us an opportunity to learn from our mistakes and move forward. Just because you fall down today, doesn't mean that tomorrow you must remain down.
Ever slipped out in public and actually fell down? Jumped up real quick, didn't you? The next thing you did was looked around and prayed that nobody saw you. (Just a little side note to you--SOMEBODY always sees you.)
Just as quickly as you bounced up from a "real" fall, you can bounce back from a figurative fall.
One thing that I’ve noticed from speaking with a lot of people is that they understand We Fall Down part and, generally, when they do fall down, they simply stay there or let their fall stop them from moving forward. They have never learned "BUT We Get Up" part.
No matter what circumstances are in your life that might have tripped you up, no matter what you have been through, no matter what happened in your past, you can always GET UP and make changes, right now, that will forever banish or make obsolete, "bad" things that caused you to fall in past.
Don't get me wrong...I hear some very legitimate sounding "excuses" as to why people "feel" that their life will forever be way that it presently may be. I hear things like "I was molested when I was young." "My mother abandoned me when I was two years old and left me because she was out chasing pipe." "I have an addiction. How can I possibly get a job that pays more than minimum wage." "I don't have an education. How can I ever expect to get a good job?"
STOP Living In Past! We all fall down. But remember, "A Saint is just a sinner who fell down AND got up."
GET UP! Stop living in past! Your past should be a reference point, NOT a residence.
But so many of us continuously LIVE in past. We went out and bought a "WELCOME" mat and promptly placed it at door of our past. We can't break away from it. We wear it as some sort of badge of honor because we simply won't let it go.
Just because you made a mistake or circumstances led you to do something that you now regret, doesn't mean that for rest of your life you will have to beat yourself up because of it.
Doesn't matter if you made two mistakes or three. Heck, it doesn't even matter if you made over a million mistakes in your life. What matters is today, right now.
