Maybe Knocked Down but Not Out Forever!

The title of today's post is part of one of my favorite songs right now. The lyrics say.... "We lose our way, we get back up again. Its never too late to get back up again. Come on! Come on! You're gonna shine again! Maybe knocked down but not out forever! This is Love calling, Love calling out to the broken. This is Love calling!"

Good Good Truth! I am so thankful that my God is the God of Love and the God of Redemption! And that He, in His Faithful Love, calls out to me!

Proverbs 3:11-12
11 Do not despise the LORD's instruction, my son,
and do not loathe His discipline;

12 for the LORD disciplines the one He loves,
just as a father, the son he delights in.

The fact is, I made some very poor choices 8 and 9 years ago. I am living out the consequences and the discipline for those choices. Another fact is, this time of deep despair has accomplished at least part of His purpose... to drive me closer and closer to Him. I can say that NOTHING is more important to me than hearing His Voice and knowing His Presence. Up until this transformation in me and the "renewal of mind" (Rom 12:2), human approval fought as a god against this Truth in my life now. And though doubt attempts to creep in, I know that this time will pass and God's mighty right arm of justice will swing and the reversal of destiny will come.


1 Peter 5:6
6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, so that He may exalt you in due time...

I don't have to put myself under the "mighty" hand of ANYONE other than God. In fact, I BETTER not!


Hebrews 12:12-13
12 Therefore strengthen your tired hands and weakened knees, 13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but healed instead.

I continuously went down the path of co-dependent relationships (what was lame). Something was broken/dislocated in me and needed to be healed. I did not simply need to make some correction there... that had to be healed in me! So, I have done and am doing the hard, hard work of strengthening my tired hands and weakened knees and making straight paths for my feet in order to walk the path of healing!

Hebrews 12:11
11 No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields the fruit of peace and righteousness to those who have been trained by it.


Galatians 6:7-8
7 Don't be deceived: God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows he will also reap, 8 because the one who sows to his flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

1 Corinthians 4:4
4My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent. It is the Lord who judges me.

There was no escaping these consequences but because of the discipline of the Lord and my yielding to it, I can live in healed peace with my Prince of Peace! And I can trust HIM, at the proper time, to bring about the justice of those whose goal is to humiliate and annihilate me.


Psalm 5
The Refuge of the Righteous

1 Listen to my words, LORD;
consider my sighing.
2 Pay attention to the sound of my cry,
my King and my God,
for I pray to You.

3 At daybreak, LORD, You hear my voice;
at daybreak I plead my case to You and watch expectantly.

4 For You are not a God who delights in wickedness;
evil cannot lodge with You.

5 The boastful cannot stand in Your presence;
You hate all evildoers.

6 You destroy those who tell lies;
the LORD abhors a man of bloodshed and treachery.

7 But I enter Your house
by the abundance of Your faithful love;
I bow down toward Your holy temple
in reverential awe of You.

8 LORD, lead me in Your righteousness,
because of my adversaries;
make Your way straight before me.

9 For there is nothing reliable in what they say;
destruction is within them;
their throat is an open grave;
they flatter with their tongues.

10 Punish them, God;
let them fall by their own schemes.
Drive them out because of their many crimes,
for they rebel against You.

11 But let all who take refuge in You rejoice;
let them shout for joy forever.
May You shelter them,
and may those who love Your name boast about You.

12 For You, LORD, bless the righteous one;
You surround him with favor like a shield.


Psalm 6
A Prayer for Mercy

1 LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger;
do not discipline me in Your wrath.
2 Be gracious to me, LORD, for I am weak;
heal me, LORD, for my bones are shaking;

3 my whole being is shaken with terror.
And You, LORD— how long?

4 Turn, LORD! Rescue me;
save me because of Your faithful love.

5 For there is no remembrance of You in death;
who can thank You in Sheol?

6 I am weary from my groaning;
with my tears I dampen my pillow
and drench my bed every night.

7 My eyes are swollen from grief;
they grow old because of all my enemies.

8 Depart from me, all evildoers,
for the LORD has heard the sound of my weeping.

9 The LORD has heard my plea for help;
the LORD accepts my prayer.

10 All my enemies will be ashamed and shake with terror;
they will turn back and suddenly be disgraced.

Sweet Father,
I trust You and
I love You, too!
J