If you’ve been following my devotions for a while you may remember back early fall of 2006 I wrote a devotion named “Daddy, help me”.
Throughout this winter our daily walks have slowed down a bit due to my son wanting to stay around the house in the driveway where it’s easy to walk. Yesterday we did make a walk through our twelve acres of land in search of animal tracks and some exercise. So with my two year old son, my two Golden Retrievers, my wife and I headed down the trails cut throughout my land. With the dogs up running ahead moving at a brisk pace, the rest of us followed. Of course in order to empower my son we let him lead the way. Kolten being a total of 38 pounds was able to easily slide across the crusty snow. Myself being at 220 pounds could not say the same.
I think back to the days when I wrote “Daddy, help me”. Kolten was new to the woods and still requiring a lot of help in making his way through the obstacles that present themselves in the back lot. The small insignificant fur trees to me appeared a tripping obstacle for my son. Yesterday my son was easily able to scoot anywhere and everywhere. One reason of course is he has grown older and become more stable on his feet. The other factor that helped him was all the underbrush was covered with snow. These two factors made it fairly easy for my son to walk through the woods.
I relate this with our walk with God. When we are “young” Christians we can struggle with the obstacles that pop up on our walk. Just like my son, we as Christians grow more stable and strong as our relationship with Christ grows. Then as the snow acted as a strong foundation for my son to fly along, our relationship with Christ acts as the snow in our Christian walk. As we remain focused on him and his direction for our life we are able to scoot along right across the snow.
On the flopside of this you can relate my sinking through the snow everystep I make with what happens when we become self absored instead of focusing on what God’s direction for us is. The weight of family, jobs, bills and all those other wonderful things we all deal with on a daily basis gain our focus as we sink each step we take.
Look upon Christ this morning. I promise there will be obstacles in your life. Although, focusing on him will allow a strong foundation for us to as in Darrell Waltrips (nascar announcer) words, we can boogity, boogity, boogity……
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