How's your walk?
28/May/10 10:35 Filed in: Reflection | personal
Back in 1981 while serving in the Air Force in England, I was, for a brief period of time, a part of a discipleship group on the Air Force Base. I can still remember one day the leader, who barely knew my first name (Bob is not too difficult) walked up to me in an uncomfortable manner got in my face and asked me ‘How’s your walk?’. I was such a new believer, that I am not sure I even knew what he was asking. I grunted something to the effect of ‘Okay I guess’. That one question pretty much ended my involvement with the discipleship group and I was later encouraged to know that my spiritual mentors were equally taken back by the question and more importantly the manner in which it was asked.
The fact is, it is a great question to be asking. How is your walk? Or in other words:
Are you walking with God?
Is everything okay?
Are you struggling
Can I help you?
Are there issues you are dealing with?
I think we all need to be asking our own selves this exact question.
For those of us who are mentors or have people who look up to us spiritually and want us to lead them and ask them the tough questions, this is the right question, Hows your walk?
I would say that I am not asking myself that question enough. I need to keep asking it and if it is a positive response, I should enjoy it and thank God that I can answer positively.
If it is a negative one, then I need to reflect on how to improve. Reflecting on the past is the rubber band by which I can thrust myself positively in the future.
Hey, by the way,
‘How’s your walk?’.......