i wonder if a correlation can be made between the number of times a person falls on hard times and how quickly they can stand back up on the assurance of God.

I think the simple answer is that with each fall, brings another opportunity for God to heal the hurt. And each healing opportunity becomes a reminder that He heals every time (maybe not in our timing, but He is Jehovah Rophi). He makes our brokenness beautiful and gives us the confidence to stand back up boldly on His promises.

I do believe each time this collision of the hurt and the healer occurs, we are reminded of Jesus’s words in Matthew 6:25-27. We do not need to worry in our pain and suffering, God will take care of us. With each living example in which He has shown this very promise, we can rest in His blessed assurance ’quicker’ than the last, stand back up with readiness and start walking in His peace.

“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?