From the Preacher’s Desk

Walk with God

Do you want to walk with God? Oh, how I hope you said yes. Oh, how God hopes you said yes. God’s word tells us that Adam and Eve walked with God in their garden paradise. Noah, Abraham and Isaac walked with God. I wish I had the space to tell you of all who are said to have walked with God in the scriptures.

The Israelites were told “If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and perform them” they would be blessed and that, “I will walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people.”

Solomon prayed before all the people of Israel, “Lord God of Israel, there is no God in heaven above or on earth below like You, who keep Your covenant and mercy with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.”

After that he said to the people of Israel, “Let your heart therefore be loyal to the Lord our God to walk in His statutes and keep His commandments.” King David wrote, “For the Lord God is a sun and shield; The Lord will give grace and glory; No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.”

Isaiah prophesied concerning the New Testament church, saying, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, and we shall walk in His paths.” Of Christianity he prophesied, “A highway shall be there, and a road, and it shall be called the Highway of Holiness … the redeemed shall walk there.”
The apostle Paul tells us that those buried with Christ in baptism are raised to “walk in newness of life.”

We walk with God when we walk by faith in obedience to the revealed word of God. And to the Ephesians he said, “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”

As the apostle John said, we must walk in the light—in the light of the gospel, the teaching of Christ, and “This is love, that we walk according to His commandments.”

Are you walking with God? You can walk with God, and He will walk with you. What great news. It’s the best news in the world.

To learn how to begin that walk and continue in that walk read Acts 2. It tells of over 3,000 who began a new walk with God that day and how they continued walking with God. This truth comes from no other source than the Bible.

It is the only criterion for Christian doctrine. Your questions and comments are welcomed.