Walking Around

I just took a walk around our building. I used to do this just about daily with my friend Cliff, but our schedules haven't worked out lately. I figured that it would be a better use of my lunch hour than giong into the secluded room I have for a nap. We are having one of those picture-perfect North Carolina spring days. If anything it might almost be a bit warm, but that's OK. The sunshine is welcome after our week of darkness. I know that my family in NE Ohio don't want to hear about a week of darkness after they suffered a month of it in January.

I finished my daily Greek vocabulary review on my walk. I also did my review for my Biblical Counseling scripture memory verses. That got me through about half of the walk and then I had time to just sort of think.

One thing I noticed is that we still have a lot of walkers inside the building on a day like today, but few go outside. Why don't more people go out when the weather is so nice? I know that for me it is because there is a certain sense of naughtiness I feel when I go out. It's as if playing hooky is OK if I'm at my desk surfing the web or if I'm walking down to the mailroom, but if I go outside for 15 minutes there is a problem. I think it's the sense of departure from availability.

I thought about how I was playing with fire at the end of my workday yesterday afternoon. I thank God for deliverance from porn, but I am still tempted. It's easy to look for things I shouldn't and get close to the edge. Yesterday's Biblical Counseling class was convicting as I was reminded that legalism doesn't save. It doesn't matter what I do if my heart is wrong.

I was tempted to make a few comments in that class yesterday. As we talked about legalism I thought about making a joke regarding Baptists, but thought better of it. We also talked about essentials of the faith and how eschatology is not one of them for fellowship. I wanted to make a snide comment about Dispensationalists, but I decided against that too.

My overarching thought was that I didn't really want to come back into the building. I'm ready to go home and enjoy some homemmade BBQ.