When a baby is learning to walk, a parent doesn’t say anything about how many times they fall down. It is a process of learning to walk. But they rejoice over the steps that the child takes. God rejoices over us. He delights in the steps of the righteous and forgives them when they fall.

Sometimes, the children can push themselves back up when they fall. Other times, their parents have to pick them up. It is a great comfort to know that God is with us and will never leave us. Sometimes, we fall down, but we can get back up.  Other times, we need God to step in and set us back upright. There are many in the scriptures that have written about feeling the same as we often do. Like God is far from us because we have made yet another mistake.

Learning to walk out our spiritual walk is not always easy.  We are waiting for God to lead us in a direction. He will come through and show us the way.  Other times, we have to step out in faith and see if what we have on our minds is God’s plan. Walking in that plan just a small amount of time, we will know if it’s God’s will for us.

Parents not only help their babies learn to walk and talk but also protect them and keep them safe. Our safety comes from the Lord. He is our strength and our deliverer. We have nothing to fear. Our enemy is under our feet.

Do we trust Jesus enough to pick us up when we fall? Do we trust him to be our guide and teach us how to walk like a follower of Christ? Do we trust him to be our father and protect us when the enemy attacks?

Ps 84:11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

No good thing will he withhold from us as long as we walk upright.

Psalm 92:12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Uprightness is often used in scripture to describe our Christian walk. David, in Psalm 92, referred to the righteous like a palm tree. There are two Hebrew words that are used to mean uprightness; “yashar”and “tam.”  “Yashar” means straightness, while “tam” is perfection or completion.

When the word tells us to walk upright, it is telling us to stay on the straight path and walk in perfection or completion. How do we walk in perfection and completion?  There is only one way; we are only complete and perfect in Jesus.  Because when we make mistakes and ask for his forgiveness, he gives us a clean slate to go forward wiser and more complete.

The old path of following in Jesus’ footsteps will teach us how to walk. This is what life is all about, “learning to walk” like Him.

BE BOLD, BE BRAVE AND KEEP YOUR GOD FOCUS