Walk Like A Christian
[Galatians 5:25]
[Galatians 5:25] 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
While the weather is still nice, the evenings are great for going on a walk.
Walking is good for our physical health and even better if we have a good friend, or companion to enjoy the experience with. It’s good to just get out and talk, or even to say nothing at all and just enjoy the fresh air. It rejuvenates our minds, gets us moving and away from technology’s tempting trance.
Walks are also good for our mental health.
Walks help our minds unwind from being too wound up and cooped up. Unless of course we are walking with our heads down paying more attention to our phones than all the beautiful things that surround and ground us so that when we get back from our walk we are reinforced for the battles as we resume our rigorous lives. But can we really allow ourselves to go for walk and leave our busy lives behind, even for just a moment, so we can enjoy and embrace the rewards of what this mortal race is supposed to be about?
Spiritually speaking, where are you walking today? Who are you walking with?
Because the direction you are walking, running, looking, listening and thinking will determine, or undermine, the value you place on the Spirit’s companionship and upon the unity and integrity of your chosen partnerships. It will effect how you see yourself and others—as beloved children of God—or just people to buy from, sell to, mock, or avoid altogether. It will also effect your ability to have integrity when the world tries to keep you from the rejuvenating fresh air of the Spirit’s Light and Love that will help you endure AND enjoy life more.
It’s easy to live in the Spirit with all our spiritual books, gospel music, inspiring artwork, Jesus jewelry and benevolent bumper stickers.
It’s easy to live in the spirit and surround ourselves with spiritual things, but are we walking in the Spirit? Are our actions also reflecting how we’re living? In other words, when we go for a walk, go to work or church, the grocery store, or to get gas, are we walking in and with the Spirit? Or are we just sprinting to get in and out of there and get back to our comfortable Christian caves where we don’t have to worry about budging just in case the Spirit starts nudging us to help someone—to go for a walk, so to speak—and to let our lights and love so shine?