In His Steps!

To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.

1 Peter 2:21

In one of the Indiana Jones movies, Indy’s young friend had to avoid the booby traps by carefully putting his feet in the exact spot where Indiana had stepped. If he stepped even once outside of those places he would have been killed.

It is notable that he had to follow in Indiana’s steps, not walk in his shoes. The adventurer did not take off his shoes and throw them back to the young man. It would have done no good. The shoes did not protect. It was walking in his steps that kept him safe!

When Michael Jordan was becoming a basketball superstar every would-be basketball player wanted to wear Michael Jordan shoes. There must have been millions of young men who looked exactly like Michael Jordan from the ankles down! The shoes don’t make a basketball player. The basketball player makes the shoes!

As a follower of Jesus Christ you may have “your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace” (Ephesians 6:15), but if you don’t walk in His steps you will only look like Jesus from the ankles down!

When a little boy puts on his father’s shoes he may imagine that he is like his father. But, it is when the boy begins to walk in his father’s steps that everyone sees the likeness.

Are you wearing Jesus shoes or are you walking in His steps? If you are only wearing His shoes, the game of life will reveal that you are not Jesus, just like a basketball game reveals that the proud young man wearing the expensive shoes is not Michael Jordan. But, if you are walking in His steps, everyone will begin to see that there is someone else like Jesus in the world!

Remember it is not the shoes you wear, but the steps you take that make all the difference!