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1. Thanks for joining me today for “A Little Walk with God.” I’m your host Richard Agee.
2. Trades have three kinds of people, laborers, apprentices, and journeymen. Where are you in your walk with Christ? Have you followed Him enough to be an apprentice, or a journeyman?
3. Scripture
   1. John 15:9-11
   2. Jesus:  I have loved you as the Father has loved Me. Abide in My love.  Follow My example in obeying the Father’s commandments and receiving His love. If you obey My commandments, you will stay in My love. I want you to know the delight I experience, to find ultimate satisfaction, which is why I am telling you all of this.
4. Devotional
   1. When I was a teenager, I worked some with a journeyman mason.
      1. Never picked up a brick or stone twice
      2. Knew exactly where and how to place each piece
      3. Wasted no energy
      4. Created beautiful structures
   2. His son was his apprentice along with one or two others in his employment
      1. Did some jobs on their own
      2. Were pretty good at standard brick laying
      3. Admitted stonework caused them problems
      4. Couldn’t envision how all the pieces would fit together and took them twice as long to complete the job
      5. Still the journeyman would let them do some of those smaller stonework jobs  
      6. always brought at least one of his apprentices with him to learn when he faced a tough job
   3. Employed several laborers
      1. I was one of many
      2. Brought bricks and mortar to the their sides
      3. Ran back and forth for tools or more supplies
      4. Got water or rags or whatever they needed to keep them from having to do anything other than execute their skills at placing brick or stone in just the right place
      5. Still got to watch and learn and a few of those apprentices had started out as laborers
      6. Showed aptitude, attitude, and interest in becoming skilled in the trade
   4. Spent a lifetime learning and mastering his trade
      1. Journeyman in his late 50’s
      2. Apprentices in their late 30’s and 40’s
      3. Laborers teens and twenties, a few older but not interested in learning the skill
   5. Following Christ is like that
      1. Interest
      2. Time
      3. Mimic the Master’s moves, words, deeds
      4. Listen to His instruction
      5. Go on the job with Him and allow Him to make correction, sometimes very minute, but will improved the final product
   6. Where are you in your path? Laborer, apprentice, or journeyman?
5. If you want to learn more about my church, you can find us at SAF.church. If you like the devotional, share it with someone. If you don’t, tell me. I hope you’ll join me again tomorrow for “A Little Walk with God.”

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