I found this cool clip for the late H.M.S. Richards Sr., which really summed up the persistence we need to keep at the Christian life–and it also applies to walking! Here is is for your devotional edification, except I edited it a little to make it about walking instead of working!
Keep at Your Walk
The Lord has given to every man his walk. It is his business to walk it and the devil’s business to hinder him if he can. So surely as God has given you a walk to walk, the devil will try to hinder you. He may present other things more promising. He may allure you with vending machines (or other worldly prospects). He may assault you with slander, torment you with false accusations, set you to work defending your character, employ pious persons to lie about you, editors to assail you, and excellent men to slander you. You may have Pilate and Herod, Annas and Caiaphas all combined against you, and Judas standing by ready to sell you for thirty pieces of silver; and you may wonder why all those things come upon you. Can you not see that hte whole thing is brought about through the craft of the devil to draw you off from your walk with God and hinder your obedience to Him?
Keep walking your walk. Do not flinch because the lion roars; do not stop to stone the devil’s dogs; do not fool away your time chasing the devil’s rabbits. Walk your walk. Let liars lie, let sectarians quarrel, let corporations resolve, let editors publish, let the devil do his worst; but see to it that nothing hinders you from walking the walk that God has given you.
He has not sent you to make money. He has not commanded you to get rich. He has never bidden you to defend your character. He has not set you at work to contradict falsehood which Satan and his servants may start to peddle. If you do these things, you will do nothing else; you will be be walking your own walk and not the Lord’s.
Keep walking your walk. Let your AIM be as steady as a star. Let the world brawl and bubble. You may be assaulted, wronged, insulted, slandered, wounded and rejected; you may be abused by foes, forsaken by friends, and despised and rejected of men, but see to it with steadfast determination , with unfaltering zeal, that you pursue the great purpose of your life and object of your being, until at last you can say ‘I have finished the work which Thou gavest me to do.’ Keep walking your walk–with God!
March 10, 2009
Hello Ladies
Nice blog which I hope is getting seen a lot.
The reason for getting in contact is we are trying to encourage people with an interest in outdoor activity to add useful products and create useful lists on http://www.tribesmart.com/active/browse/outdoor it’s a site for user generated content and product reviews.
It should represent a good opportunity for you to share some knowledge and create links back to your blog.
Cheers
Wayne
