Walking With God
Categories: Church of Christ Bulletin ArticlesWalking is good exercise for strengthening the physical heart. “Walking with God” is the only method of keeping the spiritual heart alive. If we love God with all our heart, mind and soul as commanded in the first and great commandment (Matthew 22:37), “walking with God” will be our goal in life. The Bible has much to say about this. We will identify a few examples at this time. It will be good for all of us to get our Bible and read the Scriptures as indicated below to get the full meaning:
1) Do justly, love mercy and walk humbly (Micah 6:8).
2) Please God (Genesis 5:21-24; Hebrews 11:5).
3) Do all that god commands (Genesis 6:8-9,22; Genesis 7:5).
4) Fear God and keep His commandments (Deuteronomy 13:4).
5) Walk before God in truth, righteousness and uprightness (1 Kings 3:6).
6) Do that which is right in the sight of God and turn not aside to the right or to the left (2 Kings 22:1-2).
7) Fear the Lord and walk in His ways (Psalm 128:1-2).
8) Walk in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless (Luke 1:5-6).
9) Walk by faith (2 Corinthians 5:6-8).
10) Walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit (Romans 8:1-4; Gal. 5:16).
11) Walk in the light (1 John 1:6-7).
12) Walk even as Jesus walked (1 John 2:1-6).
“My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; And he is the propitiation for our ins: and not for ours only; but also for the sins of the whole world. And hereby we do know that we know him, and keep His commandments. He that saith, I know Him, and keepeth not His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in Him. But whoso keepeth His word, in Him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in Him. He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk even as He walked” (1 John 2:1-6 KJV).
—John Tyson, from the Montana Street bulletin