Intro to “Walking”

WALKING WITH GOD. No.1

1 Jn 2:6 Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.

I had never noticed how many times walking is referred to in the Bible until a well-known writer briefly referred to it in the introduction of one of his books. The thought caught me and I started looking up the references to people and walking. Now we’ve quoted one of the New Testament verses that refers to us walking as Jesus did. Walking suggests movement and it is a common analogy for a life with God. Indeed, I looked up ‘walk’ in a dictionary of quotations and most of them came from the Bible.

Rather than try and apportion importance to any particular meditation on walking, or categorise them, I have simply started at the beginning of the Bible and worked my way through passages that stood out to me. This is not meant to be an exhaustive study on the idea of walking with God, merely a pausing over particular references to see what they would say to us.

To meditate means to chew over or mull over something and the idea in each one of these meditations is that we see what the particular passage says happened, and then apply the analogy to the Christian life. In that respect I hope you will find each meditation first an exposition of the verse or passage, which then opens out into devotional consideration. Whenever we seek to observe principles through an analogy (a dangerous hobby!) we seek to ensure that everything we say conforms to the teaching found in the whole Bible.

We therefore hope that your understanding of the Bible and the Christian’s walk with God will be increased and that you will be blessed by these meditations so that your own walk will be that much more both understood and enjoyed by you. If you meditated on these verses yourself without these notes, you may well find your mind going in completely different directions; that is the joy of meditating on the Scriptures, God can speak to you in a whole variety of ways. We simply hope these will bless you.