"Call to me and I will answer you, and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know. " Jeremiah 33:3

Thursday, October 13, 2011

"As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk (regulate your lives and conduct yourselves) in union with and conformity to Him." Colossians 2:6 Amplified

Have you ever thought about God walking? Can you close your eyes and visualize God and you walking together? I tried that this morning, and since I have no visual of God in my head other than the pictures of Jesus in my childrens Bible or the movie The Passion, I visualized His presence and that too wasn't a visual so much as a feeling. Now think of His presence with you everywhere you go all day long today, do you have it? Consider the changes you might make if you knew Gods presence was with you every minute, for He is with us every minute of every day and every night!

Are there changes you might make; such as being alert to the needs of others all around you because you know that would be pleasing to Him? Are there places and people you might avoid because you know that to take Him there would grieve His heart? Jeremiah 23:24 says; "Can a man hide himself in hiding places so I do not see him? declares the LORD. Do I not fill the heavens and the earth? declares the LORD." Psalm 139:2-3; "You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar. You scrutinize my path and my lying down, and are intimately acquainted with all my ways." God knows us, He knows everything about us and He loves us completely because it pleases Him to do so!

Scripture tells us Moses walked with God as did David, Abraham, and Enoch. Enoch walked with God 300 years! And then Scripture says, Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him. Enoch didn't die, God just walked him right into heaven! I love that!

Would you like to walk with God? What does that look like? God told Abraham to walk in righteousness, to walk in righteousness means to walk as Jesus walked, not sinless perfection, we cannot do that, but we can walk in obedience to His commandments as revealed in Scripture, as Jesus walked in obedience to His Father's commandments. Logistically what has to happen to walk with God?

Amos 3:3 AMP says; "Do two walk together except they make an appointment and have agreed?"

1. There is nothing casual about walking with God or living for God. Christ was deliberate in everything He did, as His followers our lives need to be deliberate. We deliberately come into Gods presence, and seek His face, we deliberately make that effort.

2. Agreement on where to walk has to be established, we determine from God where we will walk, for He is the one that is directing our steps! By a deliberate act of our will we choose to follow where He leads no matter where He takes us. For where He takes us we have never been before, its so exciting to walk with our LORD, guaranteed to have a purpose and it will be the road less traveled, we can count on that! Will it be scarey at times, yes! But God is with us and He that is in us is more powerful that he that is in the world. Will we stumble along the way, probably, but God will pick us up, He will make our steps sure. What if we lack strength? He will renew our strength!

3. The LORD sets the pace not us, be very careful not to run ahead, and don't get distracted along the way and look up and realize you have lost sight of Him. We must stay in step with Him. Just as the children of Israel followed the cloud in the wilderness, when the cloud moved, they moved, when the cloud stopped, they stopped, that was written for our instruction today in 2011. We must keep our eyes on Jesus, focused and ready for whatever lies ahead.

If you desire to walk with God today pray this prayer and make it your own. From Colossians 1:9-10; "...may you be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God."

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