I took a walk today. It's amazing what can happen when I slow down and just walk. It's weird, I'm a runner so walking isn't typically what I'll do on a Saturday morning. But honestly, it's the best thing I've done in a long time. I've been sick the past two weeks, and working out is the last thing I would want to think about, but this morning I had to bite the bullet and get up and get out. Needless to say my body was still too weak to run any distance. So I walked. Walking was hard for me to do, not physically of course but mentally. I'm a runner, I don't walk, walking's for the weak. As I began to listen to my body and just walk, I turned on a sermon from my church when Pastor Jeff Brown came and spoke. Jeff is the superintendent of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, and when I started to listen to him speak, I enjoyed my walk. One of the statements he made was a quote from Howard Hendricks, a professor at Denver Seminary who passed away in January, it was this:
"I would rather fail, then succeed at something that doesn't matter." Such a powerful statement. It's amazing how often we as believers find ourselves getting caught up in the world and just trying to "succeed" but how much of that is eternal? Are we placing all our time and energy into something which doesn't truly matter? I failed at running today, big time. But by the walk I took, I succeeded eternally. I was able to stop, take a step back, and listen to the Word of God. Take a walk.
