A few days ago I slowed down the pace enough to actually listen to what God was saying to me, and that was that this year I needed to learn how to walk. Adding one step to another until I can cross this room. The Apostle Peter wrote a list of vast importance, its a list of supports for basic faith.
His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins. Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall
2 Peter 1:3-10
Just as Children depend on their parents to hold them up while they take their first steps, so God holds us up as we learn how to walk in His ways, starting with faith that He is and will help us. He'll bring us to a point of Moral Virtue and teaches us to walk the steps of righteousness, and the longer we let Him hold us the less desire we have to turn back to our former ways when we were dead in our sins. Eventually we'll come to the paths of Knowledge and He still holds our hand to keep that knowledge from being polluted.
I've just begun to learn how to walk these first steps, and over the next year I hope to continue on holding my Fathers hands as He walks with me and catches my faltering steps to correct my footing. This is where real life begins, the frothy superficiality is bound to end, as deep calls out to deep so the spiritual disciplines call out to the Christian soul beckoning us to come and leave the childlike things behind to taste real meat.
