One of the most anticipated and exciting times in a new parent’s life is when his or her child hints at walking. Even before it is close to being a reality, the parent will stand the baby up on his wobbly legs and encourage him to take a step.
So it is with God. Like the parent of the child learning to walk who doesn’t condemn the child when he fails to walk the first time up or falls after only a few steps, God is focused on our standing and not our falling. He is most concerned with our progress and not bogged down with our failures, our fits and starts, our do-overs.
For our failures, which will surely come and perhaps more often than we’d like, God has provided the blood of Jesus.
God has also given us tools, weapons to help us stand. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Ephesians 6:13.
Rooted and Grounded 