In Our Comings And Goings

 

If you walk in My statutes

and observe My commandments

          and do them......

          Leviticus 26. 3

(It is not a matter of what

we say we believe,

but if our lives engraved

     by living out our faith

in how we walk,

what we observe,

     and what we do.

Life will look very different,

   not just for us

   but through us

in the lives of everyone

  we touch and encounter.

Indeed, the world's trajectory

   would alter greatly

if we walked with God

in the familiar and ordinary

and in the incomprehensible

         and extraordinary.

We cannot forecast this day,

but we can be aware

of His divine appointments,

sacred encounters,

   and holy collisions.

And respond differently.)

O LORD,

Thank You that we can walk

       with You through

whatever is before us--

tromping through the miry bog,

scaling the scary cliffs,

even sweating on the uphill hikes.

May we bless You

        in this day,

sensitive to Your leading,

loving and gracious

       in our dealings,

and courageous

  to do what is good and right

        and selfless.