Small Step - Giant Leap

Be renewed in the spirit of your mind. - Ephesians 4:23


In July 1969, I was at Fort Benning, Georgia, training to become a US Army officer. Infantry Officer Candidate School was intense and highly regimented with only rare moments of free time. Surprisingly, on the evening of July 20, we were front of a flickering television set, and told simply, "This is history."

Amazed, we watched Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong become the first human to set foot on the moon as he said, "That's one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind." Our usual curfew was suspended and we talked late into the night - not only about what we had witnessed but about life, God, and eternity. Our demanding routine had been interrupted, and our attention was shifted to what truly matters.

All of us need to shift our focus on a daily basis. Maintaining a regular time alone with God allows us to step away from our demanding jobs, break the routine, and concentrate on Him through the Bible and prayer. Our thoughts and actions will change as we follow Paul's urging to "be renewed in the spirit of your mind" (Eph. 4:23).

What may seem like a small step can be a giant leap each day in our life of faith in Christ. - David C. McCasland


A small step is a giant leap
In growth and faith each day
If this step is your time with God
To read His Word and pray. - Sper

Each small step of faith is a giant step of growth.

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Ephesians 4:17-24

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts; who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

But you did not learn Christ that way; if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus: that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit; and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

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Love other as for loving God... however, before loving other, love God and parents first... for they love us so much... whatever mistake was did, they will always forgive us and continue giving us their love...