How Many Times Have You Fallen? 你跌倒过多少次？

PROVERBS 24
16 For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
义人虽七次跌倒，仍能再起来；恶人却陷入祸患。

HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU FALLEN?
你跌倒过多少次？

The answer in my case, I’ve lost count, we have a phrase in the UK, you can’t keep a good man down.
就我而言，我已经数不清了，在英国我们有句话，“好人不会被打倒。”

That’s so true, I am reminded of so many saints in the bible who fell, ones like Peter, who was always tripping up, mostly because of his big mouth.
这太对了，我想起了圣经中许多跌倒的圣徒，比如彼得，他总是跌倒，主要是因为他爱说大话。

Time after time, he opened it and fell flat on his face, but he got up and went forward.
一次又一次，他张口说话，结果摔得鼻青脸肿，但他爬起来继续前行。

When we fall as a child, there was usually someone to pick us up, this was usually our father or mother.
当我们小时候跌倒，通常有人会扶我们起来，这个人通常是我们的父亲或母亲。

Likewise, when we fall in the Christian life, there is Our father to pick us up and who gives us the strength to carry on.
同样，当我们在基督徒生活中跌倒时，我们的天父会扶我们起来，赐给我们继续前行的力量。

The writer of proverbs loves to compare the righteous and the wicked, here both fall, but one falls and gets up, the other one falls into mischief, he doesn’t get up.
箴言的作者喜欢比较义人和恶人，这里两者都会跌倒，但一个跌倒后能起来，另一个却陷入祸患，无法起身。

I love Psalm 40 so much, it was the first one that God spoke to me through, the words in verses 2-3, are from someone who has fallen, but who has been rescued by God and brought into a living relationship with almighty God.
我非常喜爱《诗篇》第40篇，这是神第一次通过经文对我说话，第2-3节的词语来自一个跌倒但被神拯救、并与全能神建立活泼关系的人。

2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
祂把我从可怕的深坑、从泥泞中拉上来，使我的脚站稳在磐石上，坚固我的脚步。

3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord.
祂使我口中唱出新歌，就是赞美我们神的歌；许多人看见就敬畏，并要信靠耶和华。

Remember Christian, if we do fall, we have an advocate Jesus Christ the righteous 1 John 2:2
基督徒啊，请记住，若我们跌倒，我们有中保——义人耶稣基督（约翰一书 2:2）。

My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
我的小子们，我写这些事给你们，是要你们不犯罪。若有人犯罪，我们在父面前有中保，就是那义者耶稣基督。

If you have fallen and all of us have and will, cry out to your heavenly father in true repentance and he will pick you up and you can move forward in your Christian walk.
如果你跌倒了——我们都曾跌倒，也会跌倒——要真心悔改向天父呼求，祂会扶你起来，你就能在基督徒的道路上继续前行。

God bless you
愿神祝福你