Through our union with him, we are freed from our sinful passions and permanently oriented toward righteousness. So like the little boy who placed his feet on his father’s, we too are making the grade because Christ himself is holding us up by virtue of our union with him. Because of our fallen nature we are unable to meet the demands of the law we are unable to stride the distance set out by our Father. It’s just that at no point are we as good as we should be. It isn’t that at every point we are as bad as we could be. We don’t hit the target the way we ought. In exactly the same way, in our powerlessness we can’t stride as wide as we should. In a sense there was a commitment of the little boy to the big dad, and some of the properties of the big dad were working through the little boy. Well, who was doing it? In a sense he was doing it because I was doing it. I said, “Okay, Pete, let’s go.” I began to stride one big stride at a time with my hands under his armpits and his feet lightly on mine. I said, “Pete, come here.” I picked up little Peter and put his left foot on my foot, and I put his right foot on my foot. I said, “I’m trying to get a sermon illustration.” She said to me, “What are you trying to do?” Pete, the little kid took a great run at it, put his foot in my first footprint and then strode out as far as he could and fell on his face.
Judy, our over achiever, was certain she would make it she couldn’t make it.
Well, David tried and couldn’t quite make it. So I want you to run around that circle in the snow, and I want you to put your feet where your father put his feet. Then I came back to the kids, and I said, “Now, children, I want you to follow in my footsteps. I stopped the car, and I vaulted over the gate, and I ran around in a great big circle striding as wide as I could. I saw a lovely field with not a single blemish on the virgin snow. Many years ago when the children were small, we went for a little drive in the lovely English countryside, and there was some fresh snow. In his sermon, “Why Christ Had To Die,” author and pastor Stuart Briscoe says:
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