Daily Devotional
Your fall is not permanent
Text: Proverbs 24:16
“For though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again, but the wicked stumble in times of calamity”.
Message
The Bible acknowledges that faithfulness doesn’t exempt believers from trials; figures like Job, David, and the prophets experienced intense suffering.
In John 15:18-20: Jesus warns His followers, “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first… No servant is greater than his master. If they persecuted me, they will persecute you”.
Suffering including every form of afflictions other than when it is a test of faith as occured to Job, is an instrument for believers persecution
The core message and good thing in the case of a believer is that God’s people are not abandoned. He promises to rescue them from their troubles, even if the deliverance isn’t always immediate or in the expected way.
The trials are sometimes to refine our faith, draw us closer to God as seen in Psalm 119, and make a believer long for heaven, as this world isn’t our permanent home.
Psalm 34:19 assures, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all” (KJV/NKJV). With the passage continuing in verse 20 to promise that God protects their bones, ensuring none are broken.
Psalm 34:19 highlights that righteous people face hardships but find God’s deliverance, a theme echoed in other scriptures.
Psalm 34:19-20 (NLT) put it thus: “The righteous person faces many troubles, but the LORD comes to the rescue each time. For the LORD protects the bones of the righteous; not one of them is broken!”.
Proverbs 24:16: “For though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again, but the wicked stumble in times of calamity”.
You are risen from where you have fallen in Jesus name.
