Realigning my steps
Aug 13 in Just Follow ME
Realigning my steps, my lifestyle to the narrow way requires me to change, like the needle of a compass which needs readjusting to ensure it is pointing north. An arrow which is slightly veering to the right or to the left will miss its target; in the same way we need to ensure that our hearts are aligned with God’s heart, focused on Him and His ways that we may attain to all that He has for us. Jesus came to show us the way, which leads us to His Word (truth) which results in Life.
In Joshua 1 we read “This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for THEN you will make your way prosperous and THEN you will have success”.
Aware that this walk is a daily walk of daily choices and a new orientation (upward) where I get to know God’s heart. When you walk with someone on a daily basis you get to know them, you recognise their voice in a crowd, you are coming to know what they are thinking, you focus on the same things, you start to understand their ways. His Word are His thoughts on paper, a reflection of His character and as you read you begin to know the author and His nature.
A. W. Tozer describes Jesus as ‘other’ He NEVER reacted or acted in the way the disciples expected Him to, or what was expected of Him (the done thing). He didn’t fit the image of the Messiah they had already construed in their mind. He also required from them things that were out of the ordinary, He certainly thought outside of the box and life with Him was never boring – and still isn’t!
In fact, possibly looks a bit more like this:
We think of Abraham who it says walked with God and became a friend of God – becoming a father of many nations and leaving an inheritance to his children’s children: “Jacob blessed (Joseph’s sons) saying: ‘May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my Shepherd all my life to this day … may He bless …’ He left an eternal legacy.
Enoch walked with God. It is recorded of him that he walked faithfully with God and was commended as one who pleased God.
“Can two walk together, unless they be agreed?”
Noah walked with God. He was a righteous man, blameless in his generation (among the people of his time) who built an ark for the saving of his family.
Jotham grew powerful because he walked steadfastly (ordered His ways) before the Lord his God determined to live his life in the presence of the Lord. It says of him that as long as he sought the Lord, God gave him success.
Moses walked with God and spoke to Him face to face as a man speaks with his friend. Moses delivered his people from slavery.
It was King David who said “I will praise the LORD, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me. I have set the LORD always before me … I will not be shaken … YOU have made known to me the path of life; YOU fill me with Joy in Your presence”. David walked with God – David, a young shepherd boy who even his own father had considered him to be the least suitable candidate for the position.
The Bible is full of imperfect people who sought God (therein lies the key), ordinary men and women who walked with God, became strong and lived extraordinary lives. “The people who KNOW their God shall be strong and do exploits.”
“In Him was life and that life was the light of men”