[The Mayor]

September 20, 2007

A Walk In The Park

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READ: Ephesians 5:1-14

Walk in love, as Christ also has loved us. —Ephesians 5:2

Our house in Boise, Idaho, backs up to a park with a walking track. You can see most of the path from our kitchen window, and because of that I’ve learned to recognize people by their walk.

There’s a lawyer from down the street who’s always in a hurry, an elderly man who trudges slowly by, a woman who strides with purposeful steps. Each has a characteristic gait.

The Bible instructs us: “Walk in love, as Christ also has loved us” (Eph. 5:2) and “Walk in wisdom” (Col. 4:5). I ask myself, “Does my walk reflect God’s love and wisdom?” Am I “pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy”? (James 3:17). Do I have love, joy, and peace? Am I tranquil and strong? What do others see as I walk by?

George MacDonald said, “If you who set yourselves to [theorize about] Christianity had set yourselves instead to do the will of the Master, the one object for which the gospel was preached to you, how different would be the condition of that part of the world with which you come into contact.” How different indeed!

Is your life making a difference in the lives around you? Do others see Jesus in what you say and do?

Help me to walk so close to Thee
That those who know me best can see
I live as godly as I pray,
And Christ is real from day to day. —Ryberg

For a Christlike walk, keep in step with Jesus.

Bible in One Year:   Ecclesiastes 4-6; 2 Corinthians 12

[Kathy in Alaska]

And to The Mayor, goes the bronze...

[TASMANIANRED]

Thanks for the inspiration...

[luvie]

Good evening, Rus! I seem to be missing you a lot lately!

Hope you are having a good and productive week. How is the campaign going...heating up some?

Thanks for our beautiful lesson from God’s Word.

When we walk with the Lord..........we never walk alone!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Mayor, for today’s sustenance for body and soul.