Spiritual Agility!

When we first began walking we took “baby steps”. But as we began to grow we started taking larger and quicker steps until we were finally able to walk with greater confidence, leap, and even run. Spiritual growth develops similarly. When we first began to believe we recognized the need for faith, but our faith needed to mature. Though we were encouraged from the Scriptures that even mustard seed size faith is powerful ( Luke 17:6), greater faith was still the goal. Therefore, as we began to walk with Jesus our steps might have been considered “baby steps” compared with how we walk spiritually today. Just as we were expected to develop physical agility as we grew, spiritual agility increases as we move further from “baby steps” to taking more confident FAITH STEPS.

Paul exhorted…
“FOR WE WALK BY FAITH, NOT BY SIGHT.” ( 2 Corinthians 5:7 ESV)
The longer we walk with the Lord, the greater our faith should develop.
Growing up in our faith we can gradually begin to walk with more confident FAITH STEPS even when we don’t see as clearly as we might desire.

One of the great examples of one who walked with FAITH STEPS is Abraham.
How agile was he in his spiritual walk with God? He followed without knowing all the details. He trusted God to guide him and fulfill every promise He had made. Abraham even seemed, at times, to be willing to take a leap of faith, trusting God to bring everything together even when the odds appeared to be against the possibility! (i.e. Romans 4:18 & Hebrews 11:17-19) And because Abraham believed God it was counted to him as righteousness. (James
2:23)

There were some who tried to align themselves with Abraham who did not walk as he did. ( John 8:39) Had they been taking FAITH STEPS like Abraham, they would have accepted Jesus as the glorious fulfillment of the promise made to him.

In his letter to the church at Rome, Paul drew attention to the walk of Abraham as he wrote…
“(11) He [Abraham] received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had BY FAITH while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him THE FATHER OF ALL WHO BELIEVE without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well, (12) and to make him the father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised but WHO ALSO WALK IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE FAITH THAT OUR FATHER ABRAHAM HAD before he was circumcised.” ( Romans 4:11-12 ESV)

FAITH STEPS! Abraham took them. Paul took them. We can read of others throughout the Scriptures who took them. And, like them, we have been called to “walk in the FOOTSTEPS OF THE FAITH” of Abraham. May we diligently seek to develop the spiritual agility displayed in the lives of those who learned God is completely worthy of an unquestioning trusting faith.

Have a great day CONTINUING TO DEVELOP GREAT SPIRITUAL STAMINA!
Carl

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