In ESB, as the Rebels are fleeing from Hoth, Luke takes his X-Wing and banks sharply away in a new direction. His monitor shows a concerned question from Artoo.
Trying to calm the droid, Luke replies, “There’s nothing wrong, Artoo. I’m just setting a new course.”
Luke was told to go to Dagobah by a Force ghost of Obi-Wan Kenobi.
As far as we know, no one knew that Luke was not going to meet up with the rest of the fleet. If he did not meet up with them, it could be assumed that he did not make it past the blockade or that something else had happened to him.
What happens when we set a new course, a course to live out the calling Christ has for us?
Would our friends notice a difference in how we go about our daily life?
We are told by Paul in Galatians 5:16, “But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.”
This is our call to be different.
Those that are not followers of Jesus will walk without the Spirit. They will gratify the desires of the flesh. Paul tells us in Romans 1:24-25 what happens to people that are living by the flesh.
What does it look like to walk by the flesh? Paul provides us a list in Galatians 5:19-21a.
According to Paul, in Romans 8:5b, what does it look like to walk by the Spirit? “[T]hose who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.”
If, like Luke, we are expected to do things that everyone else is doing, but we choose to do something different, how would that cause people to look at us differently?
