For the airmen it was a journey of survival. For us it’s a journey of faith. The One who saved us is now calling us to walk. It’s nonnegotiable. Though snatched from spiritual death, we soon discover that the Christian life isn’t an arrival—it’s an adventure. We experience a rescue, then we’re pointed to a path. The apostle Paul describes this active view of the Christian life in his letter to the Ephesians, urging them to “walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called” (4:1).
