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Your New Year’s resolution may have been to walk more, eat less, and take time to get rid of that unsightly bulge around your waist. This is to be admired and you are to be commended. Now that we are in the second month of the New Year, the question remains: What have you accomplished so far?
As for me, my walking routine is somewhat mired in the clay of good intentions. Seriously, I am still trying to get beyond the block on which I live. I am at least putting my best foot forward, trying to walk and failing miserably. I need to make some pretty good strides; soon. My problem is that I must look as if I am in distress, because someone is always offering me a ride.
The other day I was going to walk to the Post Office. When I reached the sidewalk on Jackson Street one of the good, fine folks pulled up beside me and offered a ride. Now, surely you do not think I would take the opportunity for someone to do good for the preacher and say, “No thank you.” No, not me. I jumped in a said, “I am heading to the Post Office.”
A minute later I thanked the kind Rockford resident and walked into the Post Office. It did not take long for me to take care of what I needed to and when I came out, there he was (that kind, sweet Rockford resident) waiting on me.
“I reckon I ought to give you a ride back, preacher,” he said.
I thanked him and informed him I needed to go to the bank and if would not hurt me one bit to walk the two blocks and across Highway 231. I even patted my ample stomach to attempt to make the point.
“Now, preacher, get right back in to this here truck and I’d happily deliver you to the front door of the bank,” he said. “Besides, you ought not be walking across the four-lane; it is just too dangerous.” With that he reached across the front seat and opened the door for me.
Well, I will tell you the truth; I thought I was a six year old again. I walked around the front of the truck, with my head hung low and shoulders slumped. I really did not want to hurt the old man’s feelings and take away his joy of doing something nice for the preacher.
Well, at the bank, he informed me he would wait for me and I protested, “I can see the front of the church and it will be fine for me to walk that short distance back to the office.”
“Listen, preacher, I hear ye, but I am going to do it my way and that’s that, ‘sides, you don’t need to be walking across the four-lane, it’s just too dangerous,” he replied.
After taking care of what little business I had to do at the bank, and spending a few extra minutes talking with the ladies and the few customers inside, I walked out of the bank and got in the truck for the short ride to the church office. As I climbed out I said thank you, the old man tipped his Auburn baseball hat and said, “Anytime preacher.”
At least I am trying right?
Putting your best foot forward, taking the risk, attempting a project is far better than not doing anything at all. Some folks think they can be a Christian by having their name on the roll of a church, sitting in the pew on Sunday, and attending Sunday School. But we are instructed that there is more involved in the walk of the Christlike life.
We have a goal to reach for and it is a worthy goal; one we will attain in the end of the race. Each day we are to mature, grow, move forward in the Christlike life. Each day our aim should be to please Him in all that we do; to become more and more like Him in all areas of our life.
Paul said, “Not that I have already reached [the goal] or am already fully mature, but I make every effort to take hold of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus. Brothers, I do not consider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead, I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God’s heavenly call in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 3:12-14 HCSB)
Alright, after sun set, I am putting on my walking shoes and see if I can walk at least a mile tonight. Maybe my friend will be at home watching the news. Pray I get to walk a little further than to the door of his truck.
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