Walking club

Just returned from our Pastor's house tonight for our monthly walking club. This was our second meeting and even though it has been horribly, horribly hot these last few weeks, the temps and humidity were not too bad. We walked a different path tonight and was good to get some exercise ( much needed). Afterward, we sat around their pool and soaked our feet, while Pastor went through some devotions. His focus has been on "walking". Scripture is full of examples and he was referencing passages in regard to the Hebrew 11:1-16 and cross referencing that to the Genesis accounts of Enoch, Noah and Abraham in regard to how these men of faith "walked" with God. That segwayed into a discussion on how we must walk through our challenges in life and how we must take all our challenges one step at a time.

The one thing that hit me tonight and made me meditate on, was a remark Pastor said. "God does not let us know our future."....Wow! What would we do if we knew our future? Would we be able to handle it?.....somehow I don't believe we could. God is so merciful that he lets us walk this path of life, not alone, but with Him. That is if we allow Him. Even though the scriptures don't say it, it makes sense to me that when Adam and Eve ate that fruit from the tree of good and evil they may have been given the power to see their lives in full and that is why they were so afraid. Imagine knowing what challenges are coming your way in life. It would be horrifying. Yet, Adam and Eve walked with God in the garden. They knew Him intimately. They also knew of His mercy. That alone made the walk easier.

Yet, imagine you are someone who doesn't know Him or denies Him. Those challenges must be very sobering. Christopher Hitchens is a writer and proud atheist  that has been diagnosed with cancer and is dying. I found this video of an interview so sad because the man has dug himself so deep into that atheist hole he cannot bring himself to see his answer to his mortality is the faith that brings us eternal life.