All tagged walking
I will not be afraid today. My God stands with me, and in trusting this, I fear nothing. Are you facing the world alone? Do you only seek God when you come up against trouble? Do you only turn to Jesus in the midst of life’s storms? Try walking with Them before hardship arrives!
When I was a boy it wasn’t uncommon to see people, and families taking a stroll in the evening. When people would have a problem in their life they wouldn’t go to a psychiatrist, they would take a quiet walk to meditate, think, reason, and if they were Men or women of faith they would discuss these things with God, and Jesus Christ. Somehow over the years we have fallen out of this habit, and come to believe that all our problems are to be addressed by yet more action, not less, and that quiet times of solitude are a waste of time. I invite each of us to ask ourselves a simple question today; “How much time do I spend alone with God, and Jesus, or in meditation versus going about my active life in the world, or even faith?”
It’s one thing for us to feel that we are in a fiery furnace like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, but we should not only survive such experiences in our lives, but walk around within them. Even more, we should never feel alone there because Jesus is with us. There are some among us who are suffering the heat of a physical or spiritual furnace right now. But, are we consumed by it, giving into it, or walking around within it talking to Jesus about what it means to truly suffer?
We accept Jesus Christ as our savior, and immediately find ourselves seeking knowledge of Him in ravenous fashion, but quite often the things in our lives that we approach in this way die out just as quickly as they flared up. Thus, we are instructed to walk in our faith, and to steadily make progress. Our goal in faithfulness should be to please Him in everything we do… not to simply WOW Him in a flash of righteous spirituality. Our Love should imitate the love of Jesus, and be life long, even to eternity.
We all begin our conversion into believers in Christ through our contrition, by the confession of our sins, and in asking Jesus for forgiveness, and to be our Lord and Savior. In this way we become children of God, and receive the gift of eternal life, but until we begin living, and behaving as Christ has taught us to do, we remain little children... members of the family, but nonetheless we are forever immature. Do you long to be more?