Learning to walk

 

 

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I remember when I first learned to walk… I was about 17 years old… I was sitting in my crib and just wanted something to drink… Maybe a Mt. dew… but anyway I leaned out over my crib and tried to walk to the door. LOL, I tripped on my blank and fell to the floor. I thought maybe just maybe I wouldn’t learn to walk until I was 18 or so… but I didn’t give up… Im a fighter! 

 

 

Think of when you first started to try to walk… ok you probably can’t remember but we know how it went… mom and dad stand you up… you teeter and fall back into their arms and they scold you and spank you… ok just kidding. They keep catching you and picking you up…

Now think about when you start to walk… a few steps, then bump on your butt. Then you start to learn how to run… but you look like you have both legs on the wrong foot and you are a little knee knocked… but you are sure you are running at least 50 mph. As you get older you try new things… skiing, surfing, skateboarding, balance beam, bike riding, tree climbing, rock climbing, Dancing etc… you gain greater and greater precision and strength in all areas of life… even if you never become a professional athlete or even expert novice you have gained great skill over time.

Now if you will think about the person who maybe in their early teens or twenty’s just didn’t go after sports, maybe they just gave up on trying to be an athlete… or maybe they started to over eat, or worse yet become anorexic… their energy, abilities and balance just becomes taxed. it is to hard now to exert any energy in any type of sport or for many … even life.

 

I feel bad for those in that position… they worked so hard as a baby to learn to balance, worked hard as a toddler to walk, as a child to run and even maybe a few sports later on in life… and now they are too thin or too fat to do more than sit on the couch or at a desk and type on a keyboard.

 

Colossians 1:

9 For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, 10 so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, 11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, 12 and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. 13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

 

 

Listen to verse 12…. You came to Christ willing to walk the talk… and he qualified you.

I see it like this. When your parents taught you to balance, get back up, stumble and recover and then finally walk… They qualified you. In you walking you almost gave them your word… Hey Im going to keep walking through this life. Im not going to get so skinny or fat that I can’t walk. You taught me, you had patience and I now owe you”. I won’t let you down. 

 

Maybe its not that simple… but actually yes, its that simple. Our parents invested in us, we learned how to walk and then some… and now to just sit around and waste their efforts… not good.

Listen to this quote that is almost 200 years old. 

There is in a man an upwelling spring of life, energy, love, whatever you like to call it. If a course is not cut for it, it runs the ground round it into a swamp. William Hale White, 1831

 

We are called to be born again in Christ… we are infants, we learn to walk, and then we learn to fight and finally we learn to race… Paul says I run the race to win! But how many of us have fallen back into that baby stage of stumbling and wobbling and sitting down and just resting.

Here is my point: I believe men fall back into the Milk stage of their walk as the apostle Paul would call it (call it what it is… baby stage) not because our Christian walk is to hard, but rather to easy. We have chosen to not run the race, to not fight. We have become lulled to sleep by keeping our bibles shut, our mouths shut and our wallets shut from the Kingdom of God. 

It is time to rise up, and run…

We made a promise…

Just like Resurrection band sang about 40 years ago…

Broken promises we lost the joy we once knew

Where do we go from here, from something old to something new, past dreams gone by from me, losing daylight losing view. Broken promises broken by me and not by you. 

Men you learned to walk when YOU WERE A BABY… SURELY NOW AS A MAN YOU CAN REMEMBER HOW TO RUN AS A SON OF GOD!

HEY Man up… you made a promise to walk, run and fight… lets do this!