Walk On

At the beginning of creation, humanity walked with God in the Garden of Eden. The Scripture says that when humanity sinned and tried to hide, God walked through the garden calling their names.

Now God no longer walked with humanity. Instead, he commanded Abraham to, “walk before me and be perfect.” Later, when his people were lost to slavery, he delivered them by walking them out of Egypt. Now God went before them, as a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, walking them through the waters, across the desert and into the Promised Land.

When the time had come, God chose to once again walk with humanity by becoming human. In the land of Palestine Jesus Christ walked among us, bringing good news to the poor, comforting the brokenhearted, and announcing that captives would be released and prisoners would be set free.

He walked out of the garden of agony and to the cross, where he gave up His life so that humanity no longer needed to hide from sin, but instead could walk with God into eternity.

And now we are called to walk on. This may be a new year, a new semester, and for some a new chapter in life. But our call remains the same: Walk on as Jesus walked.

Our text for this semester comes to us from John, a beloved disciple who physically walked with Jesus. Throughout his three short letters in the back of our bibles he consistently uses one word: Walk.

He calls us to not walk in darkness but rather walk in light and have fellowship with one another.

To walk in obedience. To walk in truth. To walk in love.

This is our call, and this is our standard: "This is how we know we are in him,"John writes. "Whoever claims to live in Christ must walk as Jesus walked."