I’m Still Standing…I’m Still Strong!

If this title sounds familiar to you, then you have seen the movie Antwone Fisher (ok, Google it Netflix generation! LOL!). It’s a powerful scene in which Antwone Fisher confronts the people who in his past tried to suppress his promise and curtail his potential. To sum it up, he tells them no matter what negative they did to him, it did not break him, and he was “STILL STANDING”. I love the story because it shows how a person can face adversities in life, but use those adversities as “stepping stones” to make themselves better. A lot of us have faced so many situations and ordeals that could have caused us to wave the white flags at this thing called LIFE. However, so many have survived and can say “I’M STILL STANDING…I’M STILL STRONG!”

Many of us have dealt with various painful ordeals that make us who we are today. Some have felt the pain of losing a loved one, family betrayal, isolation from a group or crowd, losing a job, hurt by someone you trusted, working in bias work environments, economic and social hardships, and the list goes on! I have had my share of ups and downs of life. However, I am reminded that 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 says, “We are pressed on every side, but not crushed, perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.” Please pass the gold plate! But if I keep it 100 (excuse my urban vernacular, LOL!)… THE ONLY REASON I AM STILL STANDING…IS… BECAUSE I KNOW GOD STOOD WITH ME.