Posted: 30 Novenber 2023

From a sermon given on 27 November 2023:

For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
(Proverbs 24:16)

for though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again, but the wicked stumble when calamity strikes.
(Proverbs 24:14, NIV)

Have you ever failed? Everything in life is hard before it becomes easy. When we are not willing to try because we are afraid of messing up again, that's not proof that we are not capable of doing it. It's just a sign that you are losing heart.

If you look at your struggles as learning opportunities, you will eventually become smart and successful. When we try to do something out of ordinary, we often struggle. The more we do something like this, we become better at it.

RISE AGAIN

When it feels hard, rise again
When you've fallen yet again, rise again.
When it feels too big for you, rise again.
When it feels like failure is inevitable, rise again

(So Very Blessed)

Further Readings:

And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times>
(1 Kings 18:43)

And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean…Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
(2 Kings 5:10, 14)

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
(Philippians 3:13, 14)