This evening I went for my walk. This week I aim to do an hour of walking, about 5 km, six days out of seven, either walking home from work or doing a round of the indoor walkways and staircases downtown. I'll increase the distance one km per week for the next month and then two km per week after that. By the end of March I'll be able to do 24 km per day which is my goal. Here's an example of where I will be hiking. It is referred to as the "Jurassic Coast" due to the abundance of fossils.
At one point of my trip today I passed a group of teenage girls talking and laughing and cursing and I was seized with contempt. "Geez, don't you guys have anything better to do? Get a life!" was the gist of my thoughts. Very quickly the Spirit came to bear. The only reason I have goals and purpose in my life is the shed blood of Christ and apart from Him I am in the same boat as those girls. He is the reason I have a trip to England to look forward to and to prepare for. John Piper puts it this way:
"Everything good, and everything bad that God turns for the good of his redeemed children - was purchased by the death of Christ for us. We simply take life and breath and health and friends and everything for granted. We think it is ours by right. But the fact is that it is not ours by right...every breath we take, every time our heart beats, every day that the sun rises, every moment we see with our eyes or hear with our ears or speak with our mouths or walk with our legs is, for now, a free and undeserved gift to sinners who deserve only judgment." (Don't Waste Your Life, 51,52)
So that's something I need to pray about. That God will change my heart. Help me to be more grateful for His manifold blessings on me. And to be more gracious in my thinking regarding unbelievers because there but for the grace of God go I. "Far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ" (Galatians 6:14).
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