Look How You Walk
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Straight to the Cross
COLUMN: Final Phase
Look How You Walk
by J. Randal Matheny
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Ever notice how people walk? Each person seems to
have a characteristic manner. Some are pigeon-
toed, others bow-legged, still others seem to
stick their feet way out front while the head and
body follow far behind.
Men walk differently from women.
Some walk faster than others.
When I was a kid, I knew a Christian who, as a
native American descendent, walked on the balls of
his feet.
Walking is even the object of scientific study.
See if you can adjust the options in this link to
approximate your walk:
http://www.bml.psy.ruhr-uni-
bochum.de/Demos/BMLwalker.html
Fun to fiddle with that, isn't it?
The Bible presents life as a walk that can be
enjoyable, fulfilling, and rewarding./1 But we
need to adjust that walk to the appropriate
standards to make it what it should be. So Paul
says in Ephesians 5:15, "Look carefully then how
you walk, not as unwise but as wise."
Though the Bible gives many descriptions of how we
should and shouldn't walk, perhaps one sums it up
best, "walk in the same way in which he [Jesus]
walked" (1 John 2:6).
So our life as a walk could stand some serious
adjustments, couldn't it?/2 __________
1/ In the NT epistles, the NIV often removes the
figure and speaks of "living."
2/ Do a word search in a version like the ESV for
"walk" and see, especially in the epistles, how
this figure is used:
http://www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible
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