Walking With God

Walking with God

By William Graves

Walking with God is something we all should desire.

In Philippians 3:12 – 21 we read these words:.

12 Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. 13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Therefore let us, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal even this to you. 16 Nevertheless, to the degree that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us be of the same mind.

17 Brethren, join in following my example, and note those who so walk, as you have us for a pattern. 18 For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: 19 whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame--who set their mind on earthly things. 20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself.

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Walk by the same rule that God has set for Paul. We are either a title Christian or a true Christian. God does not say to us just walk with me He gives us a format in which we should walk. It is not left up to our own interpretation. He always gives us examples of an in depth road map to spiritual maturity.

We must die daily for us to draw inspiration. Here are three examples to look at: a preacher, a ship builder, and a business man. Enoch was a seventh in line from Adam. In Genesis 3 -5 it says that Enoch walked and served with God 350 years and it says God took him.

One minute he is here breathing air and then the next minute he was with God. In Hebrews 11 it states that Enoch pleased God. What kind of testimony would that be for us today? We struggle so many times trying to please our wife or boss or friends, that we never think about the concept of pleasing God.

Let us talk about the shipbuilder Noah; he built a ship in the middle of the desert. They did not know about rain and Noah started to build a ship and when modern shipbuilders look at the creation of the ark, and they determined that the ark was built by the Lord and it was not capable of sinking.

The ship called the Titanic was supposed to be unsinkable and yet it was built by man without God’s direction and did sink under the icy waters of the Atlantic. Noah was a just man and he walked with God. Noah was a like a blind man and feared God.

He never turned from the left or the right. He walked straight with God. What made Noah and God have a strange, yet close relationship? Noah feared the Lord his God and let God take control of his life and his heart. When God told his servant to build an ark, Abraham just did it, because he feared God.

Abraham walked with God as well. He was the father of three races Judaism, Christianity, and Muslims. God told him to walk before him and be blameless. God said this to him. Walk in my statutes and I will make a covenant where I will multiply your children as the sands of the seashore.

Abraham walked with God because Abraham obeyed God. Abraham was told to offer Isaac as a sacrifice to God. He took his only son upon the altar and offered him as a sacrifice to God. He picked up the knife and because he was willing to offered him as a sacrifice then God provided a ram in the thicket.

Abraham obeyed God, Noah built an ark in the middle of the desert and feared God, and Enoch walked with God and pleased God. These are three examples of men who walked with God and did great things which are remembered in the Bible.

Are we walking with God? Do we fear God, and are we pleasing God. This is what it takes to please God according to the Bible. Ask God to reveal it to you and desire to see it for all of the responsibility to do something about it and we were bought with a price. The greatest price that anyone can pay is the cost of giving their lives.

The flesh says I cannot walk with God, yet the Spirit says we should walk with God, and that it is possible. Seek Him with your entire heart, and endeavor to walk with Him daily