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WHERE TO WALK

A welfare worker found a crippled boy in a poverty-stricken section of the city. She took great interest in the boy and longed to see him walk and be a boy among boys.
She decided to consult a famous orthopedic surgeon, who agreed to help. Examination was made and an operation was performed. Slow and tedious days of recovery proved the operation a success. Gradually the child could walk, then run, then play. He was a boy among boys.
In telling her story, the welfare worker paused to say, “He is now a grown man, and I want you to guess where he is and what he is doing.” There were several guesses: “He is now a doctor.” “He is a great humanitarian.” “A minister.” “Is he a welfare worker?”
“No, you are all wrong. He is in San Quentin Prison serving a life sentence for murder.” Then she continued: “We spent all of our time teaching him HOW to walk, but we failed to teach him WHERE to walk.”
This story points up one of our greater challenges in this life; that of teaching ourselves and our youth where to walk and how to build lives for God. This can be done, not by seeking ONLY physical needs, but by putting spiritual needs first!
There are those who boast that America has outgrown the old ideas of purity and good morals, but what they are really saying is that millions have left the teaching of God’s word. What is the fruit that America is harvesting by putting off the moral teaching of the Bible? Prisons are filled to overflow, divorce rate is skyrocketing to an all-time high, acts of sexual impurities are practiced without guilt or shame, and crime grows daily. Don’t you think it is time for us to consider the importance of WHERE to walk? b.b.bristow.
The apostle Paul, in Ephesians 4:1-3, said, “I therefore…beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; endeavouring to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace.”
In Ephesians 5:15-16, he said also: “See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.”
John said, “But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.” I John 1-7.
“And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandments; that, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in i.” II John 6.
Bob Craig, Elder