I used to have a step tracker that required me to manually upload the previous day’s steps to my computer. The computer application would track my steps each day, giving me overall totals and averages. It would also set the new day’s goals. I remember the day that it told me that I had walked One Million Steps since I started keeping track. One Million Steps. Wow!
One Million Steps was a great milestone – except I’d actually gone nowhere. Most of those steps had been roundtrips around the neighborhood and from room to room at home or at work. There were a few on vacation with the grandsons, but mainly my One Million Steps had been achieved within a few miles of my house.
My step tracking devices don’t care about where or how I walk. Their only demand is that I keep moving and get my steps in every day.
Not so with God. Paul reminds us that God expects a worthy walk, a walk that matches the high calling we have in Christ Jesus. “Therefore I, the prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk worthy of the calling you have received.” [Eph 4:1 HCSB]
God doesn’t just want us moving. He’s not into counting our steps. Our God cares where we are going in this walk with Him. He wants us on the narrow path, not the wide road. He wants us walking in the light of His Son. He wants us walking in gentleness, faithfulness, peace, and unity. He wants our walk every day to become more like the walk of our Lord Jesus.
My step trackers can celebrate One Million Steps – God, however, is concerned with what I’ve done with those One Million Steps.
