Proverbs 24:16 “For though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again but the wicked stumble and they collapse”.
Baseball season is finally well underway! Well, sort of…the stadiums are empty of actual spectators, the seats of filled with placards of people, and there’s piped in crowd noise. It’s really different. On another note, I was thinking one day what it would be like to be up to bat and no matter how many strikes I got, I couldn’t strike out. I would just keep swinging until I got a hit. I would never hear the umpire yell, “You’rrrrre OUT!”
This is exactly what Proverbs 24:16 is saying, no matter how many times you get knocked down, you’ll get back up again. The righteous cannot be defeated by failure, setbacks, mistakes, bad breaks, or bad choices. There are no “three strikes and you’re out!” If that be the case, we would all be “out”, many times over. God’s promise to us as believers is that it’s not over until we get a “hit”. It’s not over until we succeed and overcome every obstacle in our way to fulfilling God’s plan for our lives. Yogi Berra said “It ain’t over till it’s over”. God says, it’s never over! You can’t strike out! So, get back in the batters box and keep swinging, keep standing on the Word, keep believing and don’t give up…you can’t strike out!
