day no. 15,618: oh, that the raised up would rise up

Rise up, O men of God!
Have done with lesser things;
Give heart and soul and mind and strength
To serve the King of kings.

Rise up, O men of God!
His kingdom tarries long;
Bring in the day of brotherhood,
And end the night of wrong.

Rise up, O men of God!
The Church for you doth wait,
Her strength unequal to her task;
Rise up and make her great.

Lift high the cross of Christ;
Tread where His feet have trod;
As brothers of the Son of man,
Rise up, O men of God!
-- William Pierson Merrill (1911)

Men were made to rise to an occasion.

We were meant to respond to difficulty by bowing up and meeting it.

We were not raised up to shrink back.

We were designed to rise. 

Proverbs 24:16

For a just man falleth seven times,

and riseth up again:

but the wicked shall fall into mischief.

Christ Jesus lived, died and rose again in order to give men resurrection power to rise and fight. So men, let's rise for His glory, our neighbor's good and our own personal growth.

Romans 6:4-6
We have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin.