w ALKING is an interesting procedure. It’s a rap i d vibration between po in t s of weight place ment, such that the result gives us an even course.
in total balance. Those o f us in school should be in ba l ance , all out scholastical ly, but all out spiritually, too. I f o u r t o t a l weight is always
It’s smooth. We put all our weight on one foot, then all our weight on the other foot, shifting so rapidly that it doesn’t seem to be a vibration. We don’t walk — normally — on just one foot. It would be awkward to go very far that way. A useful walk doesn’t favor one foot, nor do we tie our two feet together in order to walk. We don’t normally try to walk carrying all our weight on both feet at the same time — if we did, we couldn’t move. But neither is walking hitting a "happy medium.” Happy medium has no place in a walk. I am astonished when I study the life o f Christ to see how He didn’t "strike a happy medium.” It seems to me He was "all out” in every direc tion at once. He could be vigorous in condem nation o f wrong while He was dreadfully sorry about what would happen to the wrong-doer. He could work from morning until night, and yet take time off to pray. Whatever his hand found to do, He did it with His might. He had balance. He got it by doing everything intensely, and the very intensities balanced each other. He was all man, and He was all God. All in all. All
on our academic foot, we will be cold and ul timately we’ll be lonely. But the Christian walk is not just a spiritual walk. That, too, would be hopping on one foot. The person who tries to be just spiritual without the balancing character istics o f human life becomes a crackpot. It’s dangerous to lack balance. One needs to be a Christian so that his basic premises — the begin ning o f wisdom — might rest on God, and be geared into God’s power. But one also needs to continually study the Word vigorously, as a scholar worshipping the Lord with his mind'. He should be vigorous in devotion — with com plete trust in God. He should be vigorous in scholarship — using his mind. He should be vigorous in friendship — including being friend ly to those who are unfriendly to him. The book o f Ephesians starts out by telling us that we are redeemed, that we have been made clean, that we have become God’s children, that we are geared into the universe. Then, after these things, it says, "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk
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THE KING'S BUSINESS
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