My son and his wife bought our little grandson a toy for his birthday which is a car that converts from a car that he can ride to a little walker that he can use to practice his walking. My son is so patient, encouraging our little guy to stand up and move about the house. But the car moves a little faster than our grandson can handle so he pushes it around on his knees. I think that as our grandson moves around the house on his knees while he learns to get his center of balance and then he will be up on his feet before we know it.
We have another walk to share with our grandson as well. This walk is a walk of faith in Christ Jesus & following Christ's commands. In a letter to one of the elders of the church, John writes 2 John 1:
The elder,
To the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in the truth—and not I only, but also all who know the truth - because of the truth, which lives in us and will be with us forever:
Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Father's Son, will be with us in truth and love.
He goes on to write:
It has given me great joy to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father commanded us. And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning. I ask that we love one another. And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.
In his writing John states, "I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning." Christ himself was the original speaker of these words of love. We read in
Matthew 22:36-40:
"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
And John records in John 15:12-13
My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
May all of you be able to experience Christ's sacrificial love this Christmas season and in turn may you be able to share that love with someone else.
We had our little grandson with us this weekend. Our little guy is at that stage where he is trying to pull himself up on things in order to learn how to walk. He will crawl through the house at speeds that are surprisingly fast. His footing is a little precarious on the hardwood floors, so I follow him on his little route as he weaves through the chair rungs, under the table and out the other side. Of course I don't follow his exact route, I'm waiting for him on the other side of the table. From there he'll make his way to the kitchen drawers or to the sliding window that leads to the back garden and will try to use them to pull himself up and brace him so he can stand. As I mentioned, it's very easy for him to lose his footing on the slick wood floors so I surround him with my arms so that I can quickly grab him if he starts to fall. I can't help him, because he wants to do it himself. I can only be prepared to catch him when he falls.
