FOUR WALKS
It has been implied that our journey through this life is akin to a walk not a run. Nowhere does it state that we should hurry through our existence on this sphere, but rather that we should proceed at a more disciplined pace, Thus, we are told to walk but in a manner encompassing four virtues.
We are to walk in the unity of oneness. Even if we do have differences in types of worship, of singing, of dress, manners, etc., we should all recognize that we all have:
…one body, one Spirit,
…one Lord, one faith, one baptism;
one God and Father of all…
(Ephesians 4:4-6)
We should, therefore, in spite of any difference we might have, proceed knowing as well the oneness we also have in the belief we share. As a result, the desire of Christ is that…
…You, Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You
have given Me, that they may be one as We are.
that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You;
that they also may be one in Us,
that the world may believe that You sent Me.
(John 17: 11,21)
We are to walk in love as imitators of the love that Christ has given to us and as He has given Himself for us. He has said that:
Greater love has no one than this
than to lay down one’s life for his friends.
(John 15:13)
He then went onto say:
You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.
No longer do I call you servants…
but I have called you friends,
for all things that I heard from My Father
I have made known to you.
(John 15:14-15)
We are to walk in the light of God. In Psalms it states that:
Those who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death,
Bound in affliction and irons-
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death.
and broke their chains in pieces.
(Psalm 107: 10,14)
[And] you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord.
[So] have no fellowship with the works of darkness…
(Ephesians 5:8,11)
[For] you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation,
His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him
who called you out of darkness into His marvellous light…
(1 Peter 2:9)
We are to walk in wisdom, and that implies that we are to know that there is a God and that we are to obey and be accountable to Him. After all, it is only…
The fool [who] has said in his heart
“There is no God”
(Psalm 53:1)
Because really…
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom…
(Psalm 111:10)
[And] to know wisdom and instruction
[Is to] perceive the words of understanding…
…justice, judgement and equity…
(Proverbs 1:2,3)
…But fools despise wisdom and instruction.
(Proverbs 1:7)
[So ] if any…lacks wisdom…let him ask of God…
(James 1:5)
[and] let him [then] show by good conduct
that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom.
(James 3:13)
One can walk in love and light without truly appreciating the need to know God, but if one is walking in wisdom, then light, love, and unity of Spirit should soon follow.
It can give one a lot to think about.
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