Psalm 26:3 English Standard Version (ESV) For your steadfast love is before my eyes, and I walk in your faithfulness.

Psalm 101:6 English Standard Version (ESV) I will look with favor on the faithful in the land, that they may dwell with me; he who walks in the way that is blameless shall minister to me.

When in Vietnam we had an ambush set up go horribly wrong. It happens. Most of us had been there for a long time and we were conditioned, experienced, and had conquered our fears. I was assigned rear guard, it was my job to see that no one was left behind.

A newbie, fresh off the plane, was on his first night ambush and with everything going wrong his fear level was really high. As we were running through the wet muddy rice paddies he was being outpaced by everyone else until it came time for me to see to it he wasn’t left behind. I helped him get unstuck.

His gratitude was to believe I had saved his life. I had not. I was just helping a weak man that had not gotten conditioned to the elements.

That is what this is all about, getting unstuck. We walk by faith and some of us have been doing it for a long time and to a newbie it looks like we are saving them. We are not. We are here to help the newbies get acclimated in walking by faith.

We walk in His faithfulness not our own. Jesus leads us in faithfulness but to the new babes in Christ it doesn’t look that way. They will come to know Jesus and experience all that He does in us. Until then it is our job to help them when they are stuck in the muck.