day no. 15,661: the righteous cannot stay down

Micah 7:8
Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy:
when I fall, I shall arise;
when I sit in darkness,
the LORD shall be a light unto me.

We fight the good fight not afraid to fall for by faith we believe that we shall rise. We know that if we die, we rise; so either way, we win. God either grants us the victory in seeing our enemies defeated or we die by their hands in faithful battle and rise to see them defeated by our sacrifice.

Psalm 20:7-8
Some trust in chariots, and some in horses:
but we will remember the name of the Lord our God.
They are brought down and fallen:
but we are risen, and stand upright.

The faithful fight and when they fall, they rise. Our hope is not that we cannot fall, but that we cannot stay down. The righteous can be knocked down, but they cannot remain down. We do not believe we are owed health, wealth or prosperity. Rather we believe that we cannot remain sick, poor or taken advantage of forever. We believe the meek will inherit God's green earth because it's His to give and He has already promised. And God does not renege. 

Psalm 37:23-24
The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord:
and he delighteth in his way.
Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down:
for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.

It may be God's good will to allow His good men to fall, but it is never His will to leave them where they lay. The Lord keeps those who fall in faith from falling indefinitely. He breaks their fall by breaking the Fall and gives them a hand by raising them again to stand in His presence.

Proverbs 24:15-16
Lay not wait, O wicked man,
against the dwelling of the righteous;
spoil not his resting place:
for a just man falleth seven times,
and riseth up again:
but the wicked shall fall into mischief.

The man made just by living in faith cannot be kept down. He may fall, even up to seven times, but he rises yet again. He cannot stay fallen. Faith rises. Resurrection destroys insurrection every time. You cannot end that which can renew. But the wicked fall without anyone to catch them. They fall and their fallenness cannot help them rise. They do not live in hope of resurrection, so when they crash, they remain wrecked, when they fall, they stay down. All who live in resurrection power survive whatever setbacks they experience and rise again in life that cannot be held by death since the One who holds them could not Himself be held by it.