Foot Steps of Jesus.......

Blessed is the one whose sin the Lord will never count against them."...who also follow in the footsteps of the faith....the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all... in the sight of God, in whom he believed--the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not as though they were. (Romans 4:8-13, 16-17 NIV)

It has been over a year since my last post....been on an adventure with God....moved twice since that time....first to a small duplex in Eugene which felt more like an orange dress than a wedding gown but heck with God even an orange dress if fixed up right can get comfortable.

Thank goodness though I did not have to wear that orange dress for long....after a year God moved again and called us to the coast of Washington...to a little town in Oak Harbor....on a street called Fairhaven Dr......much like Paul who came upon a place called Fair Havens.

And taking Paul's warning to not get on a ship of my own piloting again as I did before, working as a PT which was headed for a shipwreck....I sailed on that ship and now I find my time as a PT was short lived.  I have landed safely on an Island...Whidbey Island...in a safe harbor...Oak Harbor....in a place called Fairhaven Dr.....I think this time I will take Paul's advise and just because I get a gentle south wind that seems I have obtained what I wanted, which was a job in home health on Whidbey Island I will not sail on this ship again.....so here I am....back to writing.....

I went for a walk the other day along the beach....it is a beautiful beach that looks out to the southwest and northwest toward Sequim, Canada and the San Juan Islands...it was a warm blustery day and I took my shoes off...thinking in my PT mind that to walk barefoot across the sand would be strengthening for my legs and my feet which seem to be getting softer and more tender as I age....

Really, more than this I heard God clearly telling me to take off my shoes for this was to be holy ground we were going to walk upon....He and I together.....and He would speak to me about walking...walking in the footsteps of Jesus....

...so then just as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord continue to walk in him....(Col 2:6 NKJV) 

The first thing I noticed when walking was how the surface upon which I was walking changed....sometimes I was walking on hard smooth sand, other times soft squishy sand with sand fleas under the surface and there was even rocks and pebbles and seaweed upon which I ventured to walk....all this to say that it is the same in our lives as we follow in the footsteps of the Son of Man...flesh and blood Jesus as he walked on this earth.

Sometimes as we walk we will be on easy, smooth walking surface....thank God for those days....

Other times we will find ourselves walking in what seems to be sinking sand...difficult terrain...with bugs under our feet....like when we have walk through hard circumstances that seem to suck us in and every day is a struggle to make it through the day....praise God for those days and persevere....this too shall pass....

Then there are those times where we are just plain old walking on rocks, everything hurts and all we want to do is get back to the smooth sand...ahhh but hold on... if we choose to pick our own path out of the rocky places in life we may encounter that gross icky seaweed which may have dog poop hiding in it....better to tough it out with God by our side on the rocky path until God gives clear direction to the smooth ground again....thus avoiding some squishy, icky obstacles...

Secondly, I realized that if I walked in someone else's footsteps it did not seem as difficult to navigate the terrain....walk as Jesus the Son of Man...the flesh and blood Jesus walked...he has paved the way for us....no matter the condition of the terrain...no matter the circumstances of our lives....he's been there, done that....

And third, I know that walking through sand barefoot without covering our feet....we are strengthened like the feet of a deer swift and able to move quickly to the right or to the left as needed....like hinds feet in high places...

Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, "This [is] the way, walk in it," Whenever you turn to the right hand Or whenever you turn to the left. (Isaiah 30:21 NKJV)

This my friends is to walk in the Spirit.....being one with the Father as Jesus was....

May you find yourselves walking in the footsteps of faith, following God who is able to give life to the dead and call things that are not as though they were........