Walk Like You Mean It
God has blessed me with long legs, so when I go on my morning walk each day I cover a lot of ground in a short time. Yesterday, while out walking, I met an older gentleman coming the other way. His gait was fairly slow and shuffling, as he did his best to move arthritic joints, but he had a great smile!
As we passed each other the man glanced at my long-legged stride and, with a smile, shouted, “Walk like you mean it!”
I laughed and we both continued walking, but as I quickly left him in the dust, his words kept echoing in my mind, “Walk like you mean it!” I asked myself, is that what I’m doing? Am I walking through life with purpose, like I mean it, or just meandering from one day to the next?
The apostle Paul, facing trials and persecutions, declared, “I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.” (Acts 20:24 NIV).
Paul was walking through life like he meant it, his eyes focused on the goal, dedicated to completing his assignment, to telling the world “the good news of God’s grace.” He wouldn’t let anything stand in his way, so that one day, his task completed, he could declare, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” (1 Timothy 4:7).
How about you? Are you walking like you mean it? Are you focused, like Paul, on finishing the race? Or are you just meandering through life with no real goal in mind, content to stroll from day-to-day? If so, I encourage you to pick up your feet, focus your eyes on Jesus, and, from this day forward, walk like you mean it!