Walk before you can run!

You have heard the saying before, “You need to learn to WALK first, before you can learn to RUN.” 

It applies to whole lot of areas in our lives and it especially speaks into the frustration of our “instant” generation. I found myself using these words to Declan this last week, as he has just begun his rehabilitation after his fractured patella. He is eager to get going again, but he hasn’t been able to run on this leg for nearly 10 weeks, so I keep telling him, “slow down – you need to learn to walk again, before you can run!”

However, as someone who is equally impatient and who has had a fair share of broken bones in my life, I fully understand his frustration. We want to get back on track immediately. We get impatient with re-learning how to do a simple task of ‘walking’, but the saying stands TRUE in this case. If he rushes back into trying to run, he will run with a limp. Although his progress may seem faster this way, in the end it will actually slow him down. He will then have to undo all the work in order to rectify the limp.

I am not sure if this makes sense, but I want to urge us to slow down. Perhaps there are a few of us feeling frustrated at the lack of progress in some area of our lives. Ask yourself this question: “Will this slow start actually help me in the long run, especially if I do it probably?”

Don’t great frustrated at your lack of Spiritual progress at times. We need to learn to do the basics of faith first, before we can actually do the rest.

1 Samuel 14:36 - "Saul said, “Let’s go after the Philistines tonight! We can spend the night looting and plundering. We won’t leave a single live Philistine!” “Sounds good to us,” said the troops. “Let’s do it!” But the priest slowed them down: “Let’s find out what God thinks about this.”

Living in Grace

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