Walk this way…
Tuesday. August 26th, 2025
by Ken Pullen
ACP
This isn’t about the song by Aerosmith, released in 1975, if familiar with that song. Which, interestingly, at least I think, while Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, and the guys in the band had a good riff, the music figured out, Tyler was noodling around with the lyrics — but no title. While recording the album “Toys In The Attic,” the band found themselves having fun reciting lines from the Mel Brooks film, Young Frankenstein, also released in 1975. Wrestling for a title to a song they were working on, the band’s producer suggested the line from the movie that actor Marty Feldman, playing Igor, said upon gathering the young Dr. Frankenstein at the Transylvania train station, after inheriting his grandfather’s castle…why not call it, “Walk this way?”
You have to have seen the movie.
Or know the song.
But this isn’t about that.
Let not mercy and truth forsake you;
Bind them around your neck,
Write them on the tablet of your heart,
And so find favor and high esteem
In the sight of God and man.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding;
In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct your paths.
Do not be wise in your own eyes;
Fear the Lord and depart from evil.
It will be health to your flesh,
And strength to your bones.
Proverbs 3:3-8
Let me explain further. Live your life as your spiritual nature directs you. Then you will never follow through on what your corrupt nature wants.
Galatians 5:16 — GOD’S WORD Translation
A Crooked Path has not become a music and movie review site reviewing 50-year-old songs and films.
That would be ridiculous and reveal a slide towards eventual apostasy if taking that direction after all these years. Like following unsound doctrine, a different gospel.
No, my walk this way became clear after hearing a pastor mention how the believers he knows who have cancer are the most alive, hearts on fire, bold for the LORD disciples he ever encounters. The best witnesses for the gospel which is Jesus Christ, and the only way to eternal life.
I immediately thought, why does a person need to be struck with the horrible, demonic disease of cancer to be revived, awakened to such a degree their spirit soars, their heart burns hot, they shed light that can be felt wherever they walk, how they talk?
Why does a person need such a physical diagnosis to engage their spiritual being, which, if honest, and we went to a spiritual health doctor as we do doctors for our physical health, we would, in an overwhelming majority, be diagnosed as terminally ill. Diseased. Malfunctioning. Deluded. Sick. True heart disease.
Why does it take the knowledge of likely imminent physical death to become ablaze in the spirit for the LORD and the word, as we are all to do? Normally. Daily. Aren’t we?
And your ears shall hear The Word from behind you saying: “This is the way! Go in it, and do not turn away to the right or to the left!
Isaiah 30:21 — Peshitta Holy Bible Translation Aramaic
How sweet are Your words to my taste,
Sweeter than honey to my mouth!
Through Your precepts I get understanding;
Therefore I hate every false way.
Your word is a lamp to my feet
And a light to my path.
Psalm 119:103-105
If not walking continually, daily, every step with the word of God as a light leading our way, our every step, and His words are not sweetly eaten, desired, there is nothing but stumbling, delusion, circling in darkness to eventually plummet off the edge into the eternal abyss.
It shouldn’t take a physical death sentence, a timer counting down the days for us to finally become alive in the word, disciples, that light the word references we are to be in this world.
None of this should be new to anyone. Even the agnostic, even the atheist who protests the truth of God while knowing inwardly there is a God by merely existing in His creation.
How more so ought the professed Christ follower.
But there is a famine. There is a drought. There is a nation of believers, malnourished, just existing, but not flourishing. Not growing. Not fed enough themselves to feed others.
We ought not have the pall of cancer, a horrible disease, to then stand, speak, be bold in spirit, spreading the gospel to others because we know what is most important to and for every soul on earth — which is to turn from their sin, repent, humble ourselves, and come alive for the LORD.
Let’s think for a moment…
You’re not feeling yourself for a while. You go to your doctor. He or she shows concern. Directs you to certain tests. And the results are not good physically.
Then God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Bible come alive to you, and you realize, with the sand almost out of the top of the hourglass, it comes over you, compelled, I must now live for Christ and tell others, strangers, co-workers, friends, my family, everyone I encounter what matters most in this life…
…to repent and turn to Jesus to be forgiven, by His sacrifice, His free gift of grace, to have life…
Forever.
Beyond imagination.
Or, just wake up in the morning, should the LORD bless you with another day — we’re only given one step, one moment, one breath, one heartbeat at a time, and there is coming a time when it will be the last step, the last moment in this realm, the last breath, the last heartbeat — doing what is always done.
Not truly living for the Son.
Why isn’t that reality more aware in every moment?
If it takes telling yourself you are living your last day on earth physically in order to awaken, on fire for the LORD and the word, fearless instead of fearful, focused instead of flustered, and allowing yourself to become overcome, then do what it takes in order to get a spiritual alignment.
Walk this way and the light will pour out. The words of the word will pour out.
Oh, but this cannot happen until and unless, first, we live in the word if it is living in us. Equipped. Fed. To discern. To know. To grow. This does not happen by going to a church on Sunday, putting in an hour or so, to then from Monday on fast from the word of God until the next Sunday. Maybe glancing at the Bible verse on the calendar hanging in the kitchen.
It requires daily, nightly ingesting, eating, and drinking of the whole word of God. Not the Bible in a minute. Not some devotional email or calendar verse. Not only going to what you like, agree with, makes you feel good.
Read it all. Genesis 1 through to Revelation 22. Omitting nothing. Adding nothing. More time in the word, less in the words of men and women.
Let this begin with me.
Without having to get a terminal physical diagnosis.
To walk in such a way.
What could be more important?
Nothing.
To please the LORD more than men, women, or anyone — pastor, sister, brother, father, mother — while caring more, loving people more by fearlessly telling people about Jesus.
As if today was our last.
Or their last.
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