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Our Walk With God

“Listen, my son, accept what I say, and the years of your life will be many. I guide you in the way of wisdom and lead you along straight paths. When you walk, your steps will not be hampered, when you run, you will not stumble” (Proverbs 4:10-12).

Our lives are built upon our first step, and  then proceed step after step after step thereafter. As infants we learn to crawl, then stand and eventually to walk to the waiting hands of our proud fathers and mothers. Our walking skills can develop into running skills; some of us will go on to run races, some will even run long distance marathons, but it all begins first with our desire to walk.

The Lord tells us to listen to what He says to us through His Holy Spirit and the years of our lives will be many; as we go through life, our steps will not be hampered; when we hurry through our impossible daily schedules and race through our lives, we will not stumble.  All successful runners have a professional trainer, our trainer is none less than almighty God Himself; He is our heavenly Father, and He loves us! He wants our lives to be without all the trouble, pain and problems, and so, His words are the wisdom we need to live successfully.

Our tendency, now that we are full-fledged adults, whatever that gets us, is to walk alone, do everything our way. After all, we have been walking on our own for many years. We think we know life, and how we want to live it. So what if we make a lot of mistakes and sometimes we get hurt real bad, we just chalk it up to the school of hard knocks don’t we? As I look back on my own life, I know that if I had only listened to His words of wisdom and followed His advice back then I could have avoided many, many hardships. I am real sorry I didn’t.  What I do with the rest of my life is now my “do-over,” my second chance, and I intend to walk in the Lord, to listen to Him. I have learned that His wisdom and love are all I need to survive this world.

How about you? Is your walk with Him? His path is His Word, and His wisdom for us is found in our Bible. All we will ever need to know about our “walk” can be found in there. Praise God.

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Doug said…
Amen, praise God, to God be the glory

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