“Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.” (Ps. 37:24)
The record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute is held by a Serbian woman, Vesna Vulovic. On January 26, 1972, she was flying over the Czech Republic. Croat terrorists had placed a bomb onboard JAT Yugoslav Flight 364, on which Vulovic was a flight attendant. The 22-year-old wasn’t even supposed to be on that flight; her schedule had been mixed up with another flight attendant.
The explosion tore the DC-9 to pieces, but Vulovic survived. She remained strapped into her seat in the middle section of the plane that was right above the wings. The assembly spiraled down 33,000 feet then struck the snow-covered flank of a mountain. Her injuries included a fractured skull, two broken legs, and three broken vertebrae, one of which left her temporarily paralyzed from the waist down. She was also in a coma for 27 days. She regained the use of her legs after several months of surgeries.
Can you imagine what that must have been like? Maybe not, but we know what it is like to fall, spiritually. I am so thankful that when a child of God does fall, the Bible says, “Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down.”
If you have fallen into sin there is help and there is hope! You can survive the fall! Jude 1:24 says that God is, “..able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,” What a blessing! What an encouragement!
If you have fallen, don’t give up. Come to Jesus for forgiveness and cleansing.