From that time many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more. Then Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you also want to go away?”
John 6: 66-67
What does it mean to walk with Christ?
I asked this question today.
To walk means to move, to go from one physical place to another. Unless you are walking on a treadmill and then you literally go nowhere! To walk with someone else you have to keep up with their pace, whether they walk slower or faster than you.
To walk with Christ we need to watch Him and match our stride with His. Not lagging behind, yet also not walking too far ahead of Him either. I know I tend to run ahead to the future in my thoughts and not always listen to what the Lord tells me in the His Word, the Bible.
Who are some people who walked with God?
Abraham is one who comes to mind.
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him,
“I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless.”
Genesis 17:1
Abraham walked so closely with God that the Lord calls him His friend in Isaiah.
“But you, Israel, are My servant,
Jacob whom I have chosen,
The descendants of Abraham My friend.
Isaiah 41:8
If people looked at my life from afar, would they be able to see that I do not walk alone, but walk with Christ? Do my thoughts, words and actions show that I am Christ’s?
“It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.”
John 6:63
We are to walk in the Spirit, and not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. The Holy Spirit helps us to do this. Moment by moment. Hour by hour. Day by day.
Simon Peter is another who walked with Christ. After many of Christ’s disciples turned back and stopped walking with Him, Simon Peter stayed on. Why did he stay? Because he realized the One Whom he was following is The Son of God.
But Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. Also we have come to believe and know that You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
John 6:68-69
May we continue to walk with Christ and learn from Him.
Dying with Jesus, by death reckoned mine;
Living with Jesus a new life divine;
Looking to Jesus till glory doth shine,
Moment by moment, O Lord, I am Thine.
Moment by moment I’m kept in His love,
Moment by moment I’ve life from above;
Looking to Jesus till glory doth shine;
Moment by moment, O Lord, I am Thine.
Never a battle with wrong for the right,
Never a contest that He doth not fight;
Lifting above us His banner so white;
Moment by moment I’m kept in His sight.
Never a trial that He is not there,
Never a burden that He doth not bear;
Never a sorrow that He doth not share,
Moment by moment, I’m under His care.
Never a heartache, and never a groan,
Never a teardrop, and never a moan;
Never a danger but there on the throne
Moment by moment He thinks of His own.
Never a weakness that He doth not feel,
Never a sickness that He cannot heal;
Moment by moment, in woe or in weal,
Jesus, my Savior, abides with me still.
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