Psalm 118:13

Psalm 118:13 – “I was pushed hard, so that I was falling, but the Lord helped me.”

I find that the people I meet that are the most on fire for God are the people that have been targeted the most by the enemy. Those that have felt themselves being pushed again and again, falling into sin each time, know more than anyone the many blessings of the Lord. Why is that? Because who is the One that helps us up once we’ve fallen? Surely not ourselves, we can hardly get back on our own two feet without assistance. Like countless others, I can attest to the fact that I have never needed to – the Lord helped me.

Our “success” is never defined by how many times we allow the enemy to push us down – he will eventually push us hard enough for us to fall. We often hear that success is rather defined by how many times we get back up. This is undoubtedly the truth, but I’d prefer to take it a step further than that. Our success is about how many times we reach out to the Lord for Him to help us up. Any interaction with sin will ultimately result in the same process. We are pushed, we fall, the Lord helps us. To deny that any of these things will happen is to fall to ignorance. 

I trust God with my life, partly because He is the only constant that has ever existed in my life. He stays the same way, and in the same place. Always God; always with His hand extended. There are no circumstances that He cannot help me out of. I have been pushed before, and I have certainly fallen before… but the Lord helped me.

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