The phrase "Rise Up" has been uttered around our town a lot lately since it is the Atlanta Falcons' football team catchphrase and they will be playing in the upcoming Superbowl.

But that phrase is also what I want to tell people when they say, "I failed."

When most people say that, I know it won't be long before two other words follow that:

"I quit."

But what if a baby had that mindset in learning how to walk? Picture this:

The baby is crawling. She sees other people walking and thinks in her heart, "I want to do that too!"

So she decides to do it.

She crawls over to the coffee table, grabs hold of it.

She rises up off her knees. She struggles to stand on her baby feet.

But oh no!

She starts wobbling and the next thing you know, she falls down on her baby behind.

The baby feels just awful. "I failed," she says to herself. She shrugs her baby shoulders, "I’m not meant to walk. It’s safer to keep on crawling. I’ll just stay down here."

The baby grows up. She is now 50 years old, still crawling…

WAIT A MINUTE.

Have you ever seen a normal 50-year-old crawling as their primary transportation?

Of course not.

Why? Because as babies, most of us knew within our hearts that we were destined to walk.

At first, our baby legs were too weak to support us. We didn’t yet know how to balance on two feet.

But we grabbed hold of tables, chairs, walkers, whatever was handy to keep rising up.

Our legs got stronger with each attempt.

One glorious day, we were able to stand assisted.

But that wasn’t enough for us.

We wanted to go farther. So we took the next step, learning how to balance on our own feet until we could walk!

You get the picture. Most of us can walk today because we never gave up on that vision of ourselves as walkers.

Proverbs 24:16 says,

For a righteous man may fall seven times And rise again…”

If you are struggling with rising up after a fall, you'll discover 3 things to help in the following article.

Plus, you'll review a shocking parable Jesus told about the dangers of settling for a low level of living.

Click here to get inspired: Time to Rise Up

Be blessed in health, healing, and wholeness,

Kimberly Taylor

Creator of the Take Back Your Temple program