Walk Worthy

Colossians 1:9-12 “For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light.” 

Read this energizing devotional today, that I’d like to share with you. There are many admonitions in Scripture insisting that the child of God maintain a lifestyle that reflects the holy character of the Savior. Once justified by faith, the Christian begins the walking worthy process of sanctification. The 1828 Webster’s dictionary defines the word “sanctification” as:  1.The act of making holy. In an evangelical sense, the act of God's grace by which the affections of men are purified or alienated from sin and the world, and exalted to a supreme love to God. 2.The act of consecrating or of setting apart for a sacred purpose; consecration. Walking and growing into the likeness of Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 3:20-4:3 “Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen. I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.”

Paul’s admonition to the church at Colossae was to live in such a way that everything would be “all pleasing” to our Lord. The Galatian church was struggling with members who were trying to keep the “old” Jewish law. So, Paul argued in Galatians 1:9-10 “As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed. For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ.” And Paul insisted to the Thessalonians, “That you would walk worthy of God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory” - 1 Thessalonians 2:12.

Since we are to “walk worthy,” we are to be “fruitful in every good work.” Indeed, “ For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them” - Ephesians 2:10

None of this should be a surprise. When God drew us to Himself, brought the necessary conviction of our sin, Christ’s righteousness, and the judgment to come), what was “dead in trespasses and sin” had to become a “new creature”, “created in righteousness and true holiness”. That “new man” is then empowered to “walk worthy.” 

Blessings