1 Thessalonians 2:12: “that you would have a walk worthy of God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.”

July 1st, 2022 by Pastor Ed in devotional

Here’s that familiar word walk that Scripture often uses to describe our journey in life with God. From the very beginning, before their little apple rebellion, God enjoyed walking in the garden with Adam and Eve, and He wants to walk with us today. A walk is simply how we live our lives every day, through practical daily actions. An authentic believer lives the life of a servant, and lives at peace with other servants. Cowboy philosopher Will Rogers said it this way, “Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your talking parrot to the town gossip.”

This verse tells us that God calls us “into His own kingdom and glory.” We are reminded throughout Scripture that God calls us both from something and to something. We are called from labor to rest in Matthew 11:28. We are called from death to life in 1 John 3:14. We are called from bondage to liberty in Galatians 5:13 and from darkness to light in 1 Peter 2:9. Our God is constantly calling us to new, higher ground because our walk is never to become static but constantly dynamic and changing for the good. Of course we will never arrive while we are in these bodies, but we are called to walk like the children of God we really are now.

Pastor Leonard Ravenhill liked to tell a story about a group of tourists visiting a picturesque but tiny English village. They walked around the square and up to an old man sitting beside a fence. In a patronizing way, one tourist asked, “Tell us, were any great men born in this village?” The old man replied, “Nope, only babies.” That is true about all believers, we are all born again as babies.

“LORD, help us to walk like Your children today.”