A Lucy Lesson
Our youngest granddaughter, Lucy Joy, just turned one! For the month preceding her birthday, Lucy was mostly crawling, taking a few steps from couch to table, or letting you take her hands and lead her, toddling around with great delight.
It is always fun to watch her, with smiling face and outstretched arms, as she takes a few steps . . . then tumbles down and finishes getting where she wants to go with her fast-paced crawl. But something happened as she came within days of turning one. Walking replaced crawling as her preferred mode of movement. When she tumbles, she gets up, steadies herself, and starts to walk again—she doesn’t want to crawl.
As an adult, there are very few times I would choose to crawl instead of walk. It would take a specific situation with no other alternative. Walking becomes the usual means of mobility for nearly everyone by around age one.
That’s how our spiritual walk should be too. As new believers, we are like toddlers crawling; but as we grow, we begin to walk and shouldn’t have the desire to spiritually crawl instead.
How is your spiritual gait? If you find you aren’t steady or sure-footed, go back to the basics of daily reading His Word, praying with a worshipful heart and listening ear, being an active part of your church family, and sharing the hope and good news of salvation with others who need to hear. If we all would do these things, we could have a spiritual walk-a-thon that would change the world. We might even trade in our walking shoes for running shoes!
“Walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God” (Colossians 1:10 NASB).
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Mary Clarkson | February 6, 2016
I really appreciated the back to basics suggestion. I've been stumbling lately and I've been a Christian my whole life, so I don't even have a good excuse. I do pray. In the morning and evening I read Psalms aloud to the Lord in praise. At night, I meditate and the Lord gives me a verse. But I've been slacking on church and I feel called to start a children's Bible study. You've reiterated what I know I need to be doing. Thank you.
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megan from NEW ZEALAND | March 18, 2016
So true! I am 51 and have been a Christian for years. But with all that I have been through these last six years, my spiritual growth had taken a back seat. Reading the above advice to go back to the basics of daily reading and just praying with a worshipful heart, and trying to be more active with my church family...these are the things I have done in the last three months, when I went through a stressful time. And oh how it bought me back into a closer walk with my heavenly Father. All that stressing and racing around, while still talking to God, but not reading His word enough, and then when a stressful time hit me again, I started thanking God for all that He had already done for me. I started to read more deeply into His word and from there on God showed me His blessings and help once again. And now the relief of feeling closer to my Heavenly Father again....so good!!
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chit | April 19, 2016
At 65, starting to be in the knowledge of the LORD takes time and effort. Praying unceasingly and not just morning and evening is an eye opener for me to talk with Him. Thank You Lord for Your wisdom to understand and believe what I should. Bringing me to the group of Christians that brought me closer to You when we do Bible study is a blessing. I LOVE YOU TOO!
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sheryll Anderson | April 20, 2016
Love reading this! Life is so much better when we stay anchored close to God with prayer, worship, reading the Bible and being thankful for everything we have been given! We need friends who will hold us accountable and friends we can pray with.
Thank you for writing this little reminder!
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