Get Back on Your Feet
Whenever you go through a broken engagement, no matter how quickly it ends or how long it lasts, you will always be left with nothing.
Nothing to fix the past. Nothing to make sense of the present. Nothing to resemble a future.
And the only thing I can compare it to is a blank canvas. An infinite sea. A coffin 6 feet deep.
People would brush off this empty feeling like brushing crumbs off a table. But these crumbs were my life, the remains of a feast devoured by the enemy. These people could not fathom what it felt like to see your future just on the horizon, to be on the cusp of everything, then suddenly collapse under the weight of nothing.
I wanted to stay there. I wanted to throw in the towel and just quit. But meeting with Jesus one day, He spoke to me. He saw me where I was in the void and made a promise to me: “…And I fell on my face. But the spirit entered into me and set me on my feet.” Ezekiel 3:23 – 24.
I have never received a more accurate and timely word from the Lord.
And the thing I find most interesting about this word is the sentence organization. After I fell on my face, I was not set on my feet immediately. The Holy Spirit and I had to, first, have an encounter and set some things straight about who He is and who I am – in light of Him.
First off, how kind of this High King to meet me where I was; to look upon my shame and weakness with the kindest eyes of mercy and grace.
And secondly, I need Him. I could have never gotten back up on my own. We all need Him. He is our empowerment.
He sets us on our feet.
Set has several definitions:
- To put or place
- To fix or cause to rest in a standing posture
- To place in its proper or natural posture
- To put, place, or fix in any situation
- To put into any condition or state
When I read through these definitions, it stirs my faith like wildfire. The Lord will turn your life right-side up, right where you are, because standing in victory is our proper and natural posture. And whenever you get back on your feet, you will be exactly where you are supposed to be. The Lord is too good to leave us where we are. He is too faithful to disappoint. And He is much too powerful in our weakness.
My life is more than I could have imagined because I found the faith and the courage to get back up one year ago – you can do it too! I know we are constantly looking for answers to rid ourselves of the unbearable griefs and pains we wish we never met, but this verse makes it all so simple. The Words of God are the promises of God, and if He said it, you can bet your life on it.
Now, I know this is all much easier said than done. I know this is hard because I know that empty and hopeless feeling you can’t shake. But you have got to do it. You can do it. Don’t let the flames keep you down. Get back on your feet because the Lord has everything and more waiting just for you, my friend.
I promise you will find rainbows stretching across your canvas, you will see the shoreline in the distance, and you WILL dance in victory over the enemy’s grave.
