Our relationship with God is much like the one Adam and Eve had with God in the Garden of Eden. They walked with Him naked and unashamed (nothing hidden and nothing to hide). Their days included God. God was with them and participated in life with them. They knew God's face, God's voice, and the sound of God's walk.
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am God Almighty; walk before me faithfully and be blameless. (Genesis 17:1 NIV)
Abram was called by God to do the same, walking faithfully and blameless (nothing hidden and nothing to hide). When he did, his name was changed to Abraham. God made him the father of a nation of people, even though he was ninety nine years old at the time. God made him a father at one hundred. The stories throughout Scripture show us the same pattern over and over again. Isaac, Jacob (Israel), Joseph, Moses, Joshua, the Israelites, the prophets, Jesus and his disciples are all called to walk together with God.
He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. (Micah 6:8 NIV)
You and I are called, too. God wants to walk with us. Even in a world filled with people who do not walk with God and do not desire to walk with Him, God still wants to walk with them. He reaches out to them. He calls to them. He knocks on the door for them to open. And, when they open the door, He walks with them, too.
Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy. (Revelation 3:4 NIV)
When all is said and done, those who wanted to walk with God in this life will get to walk with Him in the next. It's up to us, though. Nobody can do it for us. We need to decide to walk together with God.
How about you? Are you ready to walk?
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