Keep Your Walk Clean

The useful part

Doctors who study the health of the feet will tell you that conditions that begin in the feet, left untreated, can work their way through the body's systems and eventually affect the heart. King Asa lost his ability to move forward because something got in his walk. 2 Chronicles 16 tells us that in the 39th year of his reign, Asa became diseased in his feet.

How it works

• Scripture says that even at the end, he served the Lord with his whole heart.
• The thing that got in his walk cost him years, maybe decades, of the purpose God had for him.
• Psalm 1 describes a progression that most people don't notice until they're deep inside it.
• Just walking with the wrong people, spending time in the counsel of those who don't seek God, whose conversations never turn toward anything spiritual.

What to take from it

"Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful." Psalm 1:1 The average person, across a lifetime, will walk roughly 75,000 miles on their feet.

Details worth keeping

What gets in the foundation spreads to the center. For three years, as the infection spread, he never sought God. He tried everything except the One who could have actually healed him.