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By Heather Tucker
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The Webster's Dictionary defines the verb walk several different ways. The first two definitions are the most obvious ones, describing it as movement. The third definition is the one that interested me more. It describes walk as to pursue a course of action or a way of life; to conduct oneself. We all walk, it's just a question of where and with whom are we walking?
When most of us think of walking we don't really think about it terms of the course of our life. We tend to think in the more mundane terms of getting from one place or another. We try to find ways to walk less in some instances and in others walk more. I'm a people watcher, I like to observe people. It never ceases to amaze me how many different ways there are to walk in this world. You have the slow, leisurely pace, the frantic got to get it done because I have no time pace, the harried mom just trying to keep the kids out of everything in the store pace, and you have the I 'm in a hurry but I just saw something else that caught my attention pace. There are many more, but I think I have made my point.
We as humans tend to focus on the here and now, somehow in the course of our day our spiritual walk just doesn't seem as important as the walking we do to complete the days tasks. I often think God must be laughing when He sees a mom in the store with her children, just trying to keep them all going the same way, so she can get the shopping done. I picture Him sitting there saying to Himself, I know exactly how she feels and they don't get it. God surely feels the same way. He is trying to get us to walk through life with Him, and just like a bunch of children we are running all over the store looking at the latest toy that has caught our attention.
We are never productive walking to and fro with no direction. Yet, when we walk with God, our life has purpose and meaning and our walk is productive. If we are walking with the world, our life's walk won't mean much in the span of eternity. We will have wasted our time here on earth, and will spend our eternity separated from our Heavenly Father. In terms of our life's walk we can choose to walk in the light of the Lord, knowing that we will spend eternity with Him, or we can walk in darkness with the world, and spend eternity apart from Him. We can walk with Him and watch Him make a difference in this world through us or we can walk with the world, never experiencing the true joy and completeness that comes from a life well lived for Him.
Besides after all the walking we will have done for Him, I fully expect there to be a massaging foot spa waiting for our poor, aching feet. And even if there's not, just being in the presence of God will make it all worth it!
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