A Spiritual Limp

I shall be telling this with a sigh, somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken”

1 Kings 18:21 (ESV)
And Elijah came near to all the people and said, “How long will you go limping between two different opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” And the people did not answer him a word.

Have you got a limp? As I get older, I’ve found I always have something out of joint, but that is not the kind of limp I am speaking of. I am speaking of limping through life. What is it to limp through life? It is to be led by anything that comes along, or impacted by life in such a way that it is constantly pushing you from side to side in life, with no clear directions.

In Ephesians 4:14, Paul says that we each must grow up to a point where: “Then we will no longer be little children, tossed by the waves and blown around by every wind of teaching, by human cunning with cleverness in the techniques of deceit.” This world today is in the midst of a great storm and in a real mess, and mostly due to the fact that they have a noticeable spiritual limp, that keeps their lives unstable. Isaiah 57:20 tells us “But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea, for it cannot be still, and its waters churn up mire and muck.”

Today is a time for you and I to walk soberly, not in drunkenness with no direction, but as someone who has a clear direction for their lives determined to not be pushed aside. Paul says, In Heb 12:12-13, “Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble, and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.” If you and I can do that we can lend this world a hand, the steady and unshakeable hand of Jesus to help guide them safely to the shores of Glory…God Bless.
Pastor William