Still moving forward on the “to do” list. However, it seems for every one item I check off the list I add three more items!
It is a hot one here today in Idaho…. 100 degrees F! We are trying to enjoy it as we have been informed that in two weeks we will be in weather that is 90+ degrees F and 90% humidity. That promises to be a shock for us Idahoans.
Fun news! Becca got her braces off yesterday. She looks beautiful.
I continue to enjoy and be challenged by the writings of Oswald Chambers and the devotional My Utmost for His Highest.
Today O.C. talked of walking in the Lord. We are to “walk and not faint” (Isaiah 40:31). Chambers went on to comment that, “The word walk is used in the Bible to express the character of a person . . ."
Our character—the very real, nuts and bolts, warts and all part of us that we live out each moment of every day. We are to live this very “real” part of who we are for the Lord—and do it without fainting. Fainting??—it means it is not easy, it takes effort. The walk may be up a steep hill, over some rugged country, through a dark fog and yet we are to “walk” in Him and not faint.
This type of journey doesn’t sound too “spiritual” but rather it sounds somewhat sweaty, difficult, and dangerous. Oswald states, “God does not say, “Be spiritual,” but He says, “Walk before Me . . .” (Genesis 17:1).
The circumstance or place doesn’t matter—you and I are both “walking” today in our separate and very different journeys. Oswald says, “Having the reality of God’s presence is not dependent on our being in a particular circumstance or place, but is only dependent on our determination to keep the Lord before us continually.”
Don’t give up (faint). Keep looking to the One who loves you the most and gives you the strength to continue “walking”.
From the Steven Curtis Chapman album, “Signs of Life”:
The Walk
You can run with the big dogs,
You can fly with the eagles,
You can jump through all the hoops,
And climb the ladder to the top.
But when it all comes down
You know it all comes down to the walk.
hi
Posted by: becca roberts | August 10, 2006 at 11:11 PM