day no. 15,936: fall and rise or rise and fall?

"There are only two ways for this to go. They are fall and rise, or rise and fall. It is either death, resurrection, and glory, or it is glory, pride, and death." -- Douglas Wilson, God Rest Ye Merry

Everyone's story will be fall and rise or rise and fall. Everyone will live under the story arc of death, resurrection, and glory or glory, pride, and death. If you die to yourself by grace through faith in Christ alone, you will be resurrected and you will receive glory. If you live for yourself, you will grow in pride and conceit and you will have it all taken away from you by death. Death will either be the gateway through which you receive life or it will be the finish line over which you will have your life taken from you.

Every story is either fall and rise or rise and fall. There will be humility before God. God humbles the proud and gives grace to the humble, but either way, before Him, humility abounds. He lifts up those who lower themselves and strikes down those who lift themselves up. He promotes those who take the lower place and demotes those who strive for the seat of honor.