How Far Would You Walk?

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Don't laugh. One day they might ban fast food restaurants from advertising on television for health reasons. Who knows they might even force them to label their doors with the words, "WARNING: The Surgeon General has..."

It happened to the cigarette industry. As a child, tobacco companies freely advertised on television, radio and on billboards. One of those slogans that I remember was, "I'd walk a mile for a Camel."

For what would you walk a mile?

One side of us (that broken, fallen side of us) says that we'd walk a mile for anything that makes us feel whole (though humanly speaking we don't even know what it means to be whole). Each one of us has made these journeys, and at times still do, to find that fountain of youth, that elixir of love that makes us feel whole.

"Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another." 1 John 4:11 English Standard Version

The other side of us (that redeemed, forgiven and renewed side of us) says that God walked a mile (and more) to meet us. It is through Christ that we find wholeness even as we exist in brokenness. This is what Christ has done for us.  

Yet, how far would we walk with another person? This is the test of love; walking with another broken human soul not just across the street or couple of blocks, but throughout life. Nobody said it would be easy, but I guess the cross wasn't easy for Christ either.

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