As We Walk With The Lord

David Eldridge

We sometimes sing the song “Trust and Obey.” The song uses the phrase, “As we walk with the Lord.” This hymn has many good thoughts we could consider, but let us focus on the Biblical ideal of walking with the Lord. We should be walking with the Lord…

In His Footsteps – Peter records that, “Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps” (1 Peter 2:21). I remember as a child following behind my father when there was a layer of snow on the ground. I would take the biggest steps I could, sometimes almost leaping – trying to walk in his footsteps. Sometimes I would miss, but I kept trying to follow in the path he had already made. So it is with Jesus - He already made the path by His example. We, in turn, must seek with all our might to follow in those steps. Sometimes we will miss, however we try our hardest to follow His wonderful example and possess His mind as we walk with Him (1 Corinthians 2:16).

In The Spirit –Jesus walked in the Spirit as He was here upon the earth (Luke 4:18-21). To walk in the Spirit means to walk by faith and obedience, and not by sight while serving the lusts of the flesh (Romans 8:4; Galatians 5:16). We find the source of faith and obedience in the Spirit’s revelation of the Word (Ephesians 3:3-6). To walk in the Spirit is to walk by the Scriptures! As we walk with the Lord, let us walk in the Spirit, for “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit” (Romans 8:1).

In The Light – 1 John 1:5 states, “God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.” Jesus constantly walked in the light so He could say, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life” (John 8:12). How did He walk in the light? By His obedience. He said, “I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father taught Me, I speak these things” (John 8:28). We walk with the Lord, in the Father, as we walk in the light that has been revealed through His Word (Psalm 119:105; 2 Peter 1:19). John writes of the blessing found by those in the light. He pens, “If we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin” (1 John 1:7). Walk with the Lord in light as you keep God’s commandments.