WATCHWORD:
Enoch walked faithfully with God. Genesis 5:24
I will walk among you; I will be your God, and you will be my people. Leviticus 26:12
Thus you will walk in the ways of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous. Proverbs 2:20
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over you. Psalm 32:8
Meditation:
Getting Our Steps In
Yesterday I got over 4500 steps in before 11 a.m.. Two or three times a week I’m at the fitness center where one of my gauges are those steps on the treadmill or other piece of equipment. It’s good for my health, but I couldn’t do it without walking each ‘step’ of the way with God, while listening to faith-based songs and hymns.
As we read through scripture, there’s a lot of ‘walking’ being done and in my crazy sense of human humor, I wonder how many steps they recorded daily? Is that sacrilegious? Then I got serious and thought that maybe ‘steps’ is not a bad way to think about our walk with the Lord. There are times as we take steps and have opportunities to follow detours here and there to help another person, or, when we don’t take those steps and, therefore, we are denying our Lord. So maybe recounting our steps is not a bad way to think through how did our day go, when did we fail to respond as God would have us do. Forgive us, Lord.
I’ve come to realize that our language is limited and limiting. Certain words are used in the context of an ancient set of circumstances, and yet we apply our modern day thanking, trying to understand what is happening, in the biblically sense. As we read passages of scripture, we may struggle with the difference between our understanding and use of words and the metaphors Jesus used to reflect how we live our lives.
Did Enoch literally walk with God? How does one walk faithfully with God, day in and day our, each breath we take, each moment we live? Maybe that’s a question that we should be asking ourselves at the start of each day: Lord help me walk, let me take all my ‘steps’ faithfully with you throughout this day.
Maybe our conversation with God at the end of the day should be a review of those times when we chose steps that took us away from the will of God. Those times when we chose our comfort zone over doing likewise as Jesus said? Maybe a time when God placed a need before us and yet we passed by on the other side, and ignored Him. Lord help us keep our ‘steps’ on the path where you guide us, for we know it is the route to Your way, Your truth, and a life with You.
Closing Prayer:
Precious Lord, guide our steps along the way that you have laid out for us. We know that you lead us into the light of God. Grant us a sense of your presence at all times, Lord, because there are times when we tend to veer from your path in search of false idols. Bring us back, draw us closer each step of our walk with you. In Jesus’ holy name. Amen.
