A SPRING IN YOUR STEP

 

Perhaps you’d like me to come down to earth. Would you rather walk around with bent shoulders? Sighing and groaning as you go. Look out children or they’ll get a frown or a negative word. And your husband? He better not come too near ,or he’ll get a sour look too.

 

I don’t think this “earthly way” sounds so good after all! Didn’t Jesus ask us to pray the words: “As in heaven, so in earth” (Luke 11:2)? That’s a challenge, isn’t it?

 

Colossians 3:1-3 says: “If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.”

 

Proverbs 20:7 (NLT) says: “The godly walk with integrity; BLESSED are their children who follow them.” The word “walk” means “to walk about; to walk to and fro.” It’s all about our walk—what we say and what we do. And where does it start In our homes.

 

How do you walk out to the kitchen from your bedroom? What do you say when greet everyone in the morning? What does your countenance look like? Your walk will affect your children, now, and for years to come. When you walk with joy and purpose, your children will be blessed. When you walk with negativity, you have nothing positive to impart to your family.

 

How are you walking today?

 

Love from Nancy Campbell