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Walk the Walk!

Encouragement to walk the walk as in the Ghandi quote on near a river.

Walk the walk instead of talking the talk.

Mahatma Ghandi described this problem best when he said “I don’t reject your Christ. I love your Christ. It’s just that so many of you Christians are so unlike your Christ.”

What is the problem? Christians talk the talk but do not walk the walk.

Here are two examples of this.

First, my husband loaned someone money about 8 years ago. The man, happy to get the money he needed to flip a house, promised to begin to pay my husband back within 12 months and pay him back fully at the rate of $1,000 per month. Well, he did not keep his promises. And every time he came over to our home to chat about this loan (at our invitation, of course), he would immediately begin to tell us all about his family’s activities at church. Then he would proceed to tell us what we wanted to hear about his repayment of the loan instead of the truth. Of course, he still has not repaid the money in full after eight years.

Second, a friend’s family claims to be Christian but does not act Christian. My friend says that she never felt loved as a child and still does not feel her family loves her. She has been trying desperately to connect with her family. Although the woman has never threatened her family in any way, her communications both by phone and mail have been cut off and her Mother does not use a computer any longer. My friend is a Christian. She has always helped others every chance she could and tried to show others God’s love every day of her life. But her “Christian” family rejects her.

Romans 8:28 says, “And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.” Perhaps Christians should show God they love Him by acting like a Christian should act. Especially if they want all things to work out for good in their own lives. Christians must remember that love is not a passive verb but an action verb instead. You show your love through your actions not your words.

If you say you are a “Christian”, please act like one, too. If you talk the talk without walking the walk, you are showing others a negative example for Christian behavior. And they may never follow the Lord if they continue to observe Christians like yourself.

Please represent God well and walk the walk instead of talking the talk!