I Win By Walking
Lesson #1 – You Have To Paddle! If there is one defining characteristic of waves, it is that they are always moving. They never stop. Therefore, in order to catch a wave, you have to be moving too. Think of it like the baton exchange in a relay race. One runner is coming full speed down the track and his partner starts running before he reaches so that their speeds synchronize for the baton handover. Surfers paddle as hard as they can in the same direction as the wave so that they can synchronize with the wave’s speed. This is where they expend most of their effort. A common problem with walking in the Spirit is the question of effort. Does walking in the Spirit mean that we do nothing, and God does it all for us? Not at all. There is some effort in which we must engage in order to walk in the Spirit. Let’s examine a key verse in this passage - Galatians 5:16 (NKJV, emphasis mine): I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. We must walk! I