Remember How To Get Up! Have you ever read about the birth of a giraffe. The first thing to emerge from the mommy is the baby giraffe’s front hooves and head. A few minutes later the plucky newborn is hurled forth, falls 10 feet and lands on its back! Within seconds, he rolls to an upright position with his legs tucked under his body. From this position he considers the world for the first time. The mother giraffe lowers her head long enough to take a quick look. Then she positions herself directly over her calf. She waits for about a minute, and then she does the most unreasonable thing! She swings her long, inward-bending leg outward and actually kicks her baby hard enough to send it sprawling head over heels! When it doesn’t get up, the violent process is repeated over and over again. The struggle to rise is momentous. The baby calf grows tired, the mother kicks it again to stimulate its efforts . . . Finally, the calf stands for the first time on its wobbly legs. Then the mother giraffe does the most remarkable thing. She kicks it off its feet again! Why? Because, she wants it to remember how it got up. In the wild, baby giraffes must be able to get up as quickly as possible to stay with the herd, where there is safety. Lions, hyenas, leopards, and wild hunting dogs all enjoy young giraffes for dinner. And they’d get it too, if the mother didn’t teach her calf to get up quickly and get away! I know that sometimes my life can seem like that too! There have been many times (and will certainly be many more) when it seemed that I had just stood up after getting knocked down by a trial in my life only to be knocked down again. But, you know, I’ve grown to realize that whether or not God is the one who knocked me down, He is always there to help me to remember how to get back up; always urging me to walk with Him, in His shadow and under His tender-loving care.
Posted on: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 10:38:11 +0000
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