What is it to fall?
Which comes first?
And what can we do about it?
To wait, I believe, is to have courage to go farther than before. Patience, trust, hope and confidence. But in what and to what end? In God? In the hope of enough time to work things out? But even time, filled with longing, can wear a man down; make him question his sanity, his reasons.
To fall, some think is a choice.
Sure, we have 'free will', but what God has destined will come to pass. Free will or not, falling is not something we can control or predict. It is something that happens so suddenly you don't know why or what hit you. But at the same time it's something that, once it's happened, you cannot know what it was like before.
It's something that will drive you crazy! It will drive you to previously unknown emotions, feelings, power and strengths.
But at the beginning, once given a bit of time, you might think the feeling is gone. You're back to normal. But no...given the chance, or 'spark' so to speak, those feelings will come back. And what a vengeance they'll hold. They never truly left.
You fall. You wait.
Rest in the Lord , and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil. For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the Lord , they shall inherit the earth. (Psalms 37:7-9 KJV)
~Hananiah
