When I was a kid we used to take chalk and create a hop scotch board on the walkway in front of our house. We would leap on one foot from square to square, until we hit the two squares and then we leapt on one foot again until the end. Oh the simplicity and joy of childhood games that bring back such good memories.

Whenever I see a chalk laden hopscotch board on the ground, I cannot resist one foot leaping through it. I am not as young in body as I used to be, but this childlike heart will always be there for moments that bring back such great memories.

I was thinking of this today as I was reading Colossians 2 that says, “Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude.”

You may ask how do these two things relate? I think many people are hopping along on one foot in their life and then wondering why they are not living an over-comers life, a life of victory.

We have done the first part, we have received Christ Jesus the Lord, but very few are doing the second part which is being firmly rooted, built up, established and overflowing with gratitude. This is the second part of Christianity. This is where both feet hit the ground and we walk out our Christian life.

I know many people who have received Christ, but very few who are established, rooted, overflowing. Friends, the Lord is inviting us to stop hopping only and put both feet in this walk with Christ. Put the second foot down, read your bible, join a prayer group, find a mentor, start a small group, put your second foot down, it makes walking with Christ easier. No need to hop along any longer. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org