Walk

This is simply picking up one foot at time and put it down further away from my body. I can’t walk with both feet on the ground. It is also “the act of traveling or an excursion on foot”. I walk every day. I just started wearing a Fitbit and it counts my steps during the day. Walking briskly can be great exercise because it gets my heart rate up to a healthy place and it tones my muscles throughout my body. I don’t walk nearly as much as I could because it’s too easy to get in the car and drive.

The word walk also refers to this journey called life. I “walk” through different phases and some parts of life are quite hard. I can’t imagine the walk of life that some have had to deal with. Then again others can’t imagine what it would be like to “walk a mile in my shoes”. Check this out….

2 In the last days

the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established

    as the highest of the mountains;

it will be exalted above the hills,

    and all nations will stream to it.

3 Many peoples will come and say,

‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,

    to the temple of the God of Jacob.

He will teach us his ways,

    so that we may walk in his paths.’

The law will go out from Zion,

    the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

4 He will judge between the nations

    and will settle disputes for many peoples.

They will beat their swords into ploughshares

    and their spears into pruning hooks.

Nation will not take up sword against nation,

    nor will they train for war any more.

5 Come, descendants of Jacob,

    let us walk in the light of the Lord. (Isaiah 2:2-5 NIV)

 

I don’t know how the rest of my life will go, but I do know that I want to be found “walking in the light of the Lord”. I want Him to teach me his ways “so that we may walk in His paths”.

My walk with the Lord is really connected to my journey in His Word. I don’t believe for a moment that spending time in God’s Word automatically makes everything in my life good. It does change my perspective though. I see life from a different angle when I walk in the light of the Lord. I interpret things that happen in my life differently because I’m walking with Him through His Word.

I want every day of my life here on earth to be a journey of walking in step with the Lord. He makes my journey understandable each day.

Pressing On!

Dwayne