Footprints

   What do you leave behind as you travel through your busy day? Footprints. They are everywhere, some going here and there leaving a rabbit trail for others  to look back upon and discover how you lived your life. Police use our fingerprints to solve crimes, they also use tire tracks from the cars we drive and they use our footprints that the soles of our shoes impress on the soil beneath us as we walk. Man has left his footprints on the surface of the moon and in the snow packed glaciers high atop Mount Everest. When rainy days come we continue our walking journal by trudging in mud onto the carpets and floors where we live and work. The desert sands are so dry and void of any moisture they don't hold the shape that our feet express as we walk upon them. The sides of the impressions just slip and slide back into place, crumbling into their original shape, almost like we had never been there in the first place. Do you leave behind enough evidence to convict you of being kind? Do you leave behind evidence of selflessness or do your footprints reveal a strictly prideful life of only following your self interests? What kind of impressions do you make on your world?
    I found some footprints on my garage floor and front walkway. Someone had spilled some black, powered dye on the ground and  had tracked footprints everywhere. You could see where all the footprints had traveled round and round, up and down the front steps, back into the garage and of course they made their way  into our house. Everyday we have a new opportunity to make footprints! We make choices to go here and to do this or that. What if everywhere we ever walked in life and everything we ever did in life was recorded by God? Would our footprints lead to others who may have needed our help in one way or another or would they be seen as just a pair of lonely feet walking selfishly onward actually avoiding groups of others who may have needed someone?
    Well, I'm here to tell you that for people who have put their trust into Jesus Christ there will be a life review. It's referred to in the bible as the Bema Seat Judgement of Christ and it is where believers in Christ will be rewarded for what they did with their spiritual gifts and abilities that the Holy Spirit imparted to them. Being a Christian is like being molded into the expressed image of God's Son, Jesus. We become  little Christs or rather Christ like. Now this is going to be a very joyous day for many who have ran the race to end in the image of their God but for others in our Christian community its going to be a very disappointing day where they receive little or no reward what so ever. If you don't believe in God or have never heard His plan for your salvation then you have a bigger problem and are in grave danger!
    So leave footprints and take only memories as you travel along your path through life. Look at all the life around you while taking time to stop and smell the roses, thanking God for what He has done. Look down at your feet and discover where they are taking you and where you have been. Make changes in your course that will steer you into the paths of others, get involved in life. Use your hands to reach out to others. People are dying everyday and some are all alone longing for a visit from anyone. Keep in touch with your family and  renew relationships with your friends. Make lots of footprints!