DAILY DEVOTIONAL
June 3 — Walking, not running
A spoken reading of this is being recorded — it will appear here soon.
June 3 — Walking, Not Running
"If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit." — Galatians 5:25 (KJV)
Paul does not say run by the Spirit. He says walk. The verb is patient.
That word is hard to hear in a week when the timeline says everything is urgent. New model release. New trend. New thing every household must form an opinion about by Friday. The pace itself becomes a tutor — it teaches us to think fast, to react fast, to decide fast.
The Christian life has a different gait. We walk. We keep in step with someone who is already moving — not ahead of Him, not behind. That image assumes He is going somewhere and we are with Him. It assumes we are not the lead.
For a family this week, the practice is small. Decide one thing more slowly than you would have. The new app the children want — wait until the weekend to look at it together. The article everyone is forwarding — read it once on Saturday instead of three times today. The opinion you almost posted — sit with it until tomorrow.
This is not laziness. It is the gait of the Christian life. The Spirit is not in a hurry. Neither were the prophets. Neither was Christ in the wilderness. The forty days were not background; they were the work.
"Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth." — Psalm 46:10 (KJV)
May the Lord bless you and keep you.