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And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the
cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence
of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
Genesis 3:8
Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.
Genesis 5:24
These are the generations of Noah, for Noah was a righteous man, blameless
in his generation; Noah walked with God.
Genesis 6:9
Adam and Eve walked away from God. Enoch and Noah walked with God. Those
are the only two possibilities. The life each of us lives is either spent
walking with God or away from God. Until you meet God in some way you
can’t walk with him or away from him. But once the living God has
broken in upon your life, and in some way spoken to you, then your walk
becomes the most significant and crucial thing in your life.
Many of us are inclined to have moments when we draw near and worship
God followed by days in which the lives we live are clearly a walking
away from him. Adam knew God ... but walked away. Eve knew God ... but
walked away. Cain knew God... but his walk was toward the darkness. These
moments when we draw near to God in worship are genuine only if the life
we live between our visions and our ecstasies is spent walking with God.
Abraham the father of faith built his altars and had his moments of vision,
but that's not what made Abraham the father of faith. The thing that made
Abraham the father of faith was the life he lived between those altars.
Those altars Abraham erected were genuine worship and not a sham because
between altars Abraham, like Enoch and Noah before him, walked with God,
When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said
to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless....
Genesis 17:1
And that's what Abraham did.
So our gathering for worship and our private daily adoration of the glory
of God will bring us into the atmosphere of heaven and nourish us with
the life of heaven only if the life we live between these gatherings and
these moments of concentrated praise is lived in step with God, walking
with God.
He has showed you, 0 man, what is good; and what does the Lord require
of you But to do Justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with
your God?
Micah 6:8
The second Adam did what the first Adam failed to do: walked with God....
he did justice, he loved mercy, he walked humbly with his God. The characteristic
thing about Jesus' life was not his visions, or
his experiences, or even his miracles, but his walk. Jesus manifested
God’s mercy in a simple down-to-earth life. A life lived day in
and day out in union with the Father.
We have spent far too much time pursuing visions, ecstasies, experiences,
while our walk was often, in fact, away from God. What we need to do is
concentrate on the walk and let God supply the visions and the ecstasies
and the experiences as he sees fit.
If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. Let us have
no self-conceit, no provoking of one another, no envy of one another.
Galatians 5:25-26
Look carefully then how you walk not as unwise, men but as wise,
making the most of the time, because the days are evil.
Ephesians 5:15-16
The Spirit is talking about a walk. So that now instead of forever chasing
blessings and experiences I find my joy in the God who walks beside me,
above me, beneath me, around me, within me. My supreme blessing is God
himself, God my Savior, God my companion, God my friend, God my everything.
I see my worth not in my achievements or in my acquisitions or in my status
before human eyes, but in this awesome friendship with the living God,
won for me by the Lamb and sustained to me by the Lamb. Now I no longer
walk alone, I'm walking with God.
"I will not leave you desolate I will come to you..."
John 14:18
"Lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age."
Matthew 28:20
"When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth;..
(as you walk)
John 16:13
Many of us have been afraid to believe that such a life is possible for
us. And some of us feel that we've pursued such a life in the past and
failed. "How can human beings such as we with our bent to selfishness,
with this cesspool of corruption which is in us all, presume to think
that we can walk with God? Maybe Abraham did it and Enoch and Noah. And
of course Jesus did it," we say. And when we say it we imply that
Jesus could walk with God because he was the Son of God and that Abraham,
Enoch and Noah could do it because they were made of different stuff or
had a better environment. But in truth, Jesus walked with God as a man.
He was as human as you and I. He was sustained by the same Spirit that
sustains us ... he pioneered the way. And by his death he makes it possible
for Enoch, Noah and Abraham and you and me to walk with God.
When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and
said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless..."
Genesis 17:1
In this revelation to Abraham God calls himself El Shaddai, the nourishing
God, the breasted God, the father-mother God.
"I am your God, walk before me and be blameless."
It becomes possible for Abraham to walk with God as Abraham relies on
El Shaddai. El Shaddai, the Almighty God, has given us his Son, nourishes
us with the life of the Son by the blood of the cross and the power of
the Spirit so that we can walk with him.
In Jesus, God gives me the power to walk in the consciousness of his seeing
me
even when I don't see him.
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go:
I will guide thee with mine eye. Psalm 32:8
That's what it means to walk with God...to know that he's there even when
you see nothing, feel nothing, hear nothing. If I have to walk alone down
a street crowded with hostile people I might become overcome with fear.
I might be tempted to duck in somewhere and hide. But if I have a friend
who knows the territory better than I and has no fear walking just a few
feet away from me, then my fear is gone. I don't have to keep glancing
around to make sure my friend is still there --- I know he's there. So
I can keep my eyes ahead of me and keep plodding on.
In Jesus, God gives me the power to walk in his lowliness...which sees
the lowest people on earth not as clients but as peers.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle
and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
Matthew 11:29
If I'm going to walk with God I have to walk where he walks. God walks
among the lowest of this world as their equal and their companion.
The one thing which keeps us from walking with God is our pride. We want
to be up with the celebrities. God is down with the rejects... as a reject.
What gave that sinful woman the boldness to caress and kiss the feet of
Jesus as he sat at table in the house of Simon the Pharisee? She knew
that he was not only her Master but he was her brother. She could love
him with pure love. There was nothing threatening about him. God bring
us to the place where we can walk honestly in the lowest places on earth
and not look like American tourists but be recognized as true friends.
In Jesus, God gives us the power to walk in love.
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love,
as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and
sacrifice to God.
Ephesians 5:1-2
To walk with God is to walk in love. Books have been written about walking
in love, but to walk in love
is very simple: it is to walk as a giver instead of a taker.
Little children, let us not love in word or speech, but in deed and in
truth.
I John 3:18
The Spirit of God the comforter by our side will show us where this kindness
is needed and
he will help us.
He has showed you, 0 man, what is good; and what does the Lord require
of you But to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with
your God?
Micah 6:8
El Shaddi is making it possible. He has come down among us. He is even
now in our midst. He visits us in the bread and wine. He desires to walk
with us. The issue is: will we walk with him or away from him?
God help us to begin afresh today to walk with him and keep walking with
him in the paths of righteousness through the valley of the shadow of
death that his goodness and mercy may follow us all the days of our lives
and that we may dwell in his house forever!
