Walk With Faith In Christ

As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught abounding in it with thanksgiving. - Colossians 2:6-7

How far have you progressed in knowing the Lord since your first experience of salvation? How much more sensitive are you to the Holy Spirit since you desired to walk anew in the spirit of crucifying the flesh?

The flesh does not desire the things of the spirit and hence you must willingly cultivate and focus yourself to look into the Word of God and have the deepest part of you constantly connected to Him. It is so easy to walk by sight, to be drawn away from your walk with the Lord, to be distracted by the lust of the flesh, and be subtly influenced to change the sides from walking in the light to darkness if you do not constantly seek the Lord and come to Him with every issue in your life.

David knew what it was to be drawn from the Lord by the desires of the flesh. Psalm 51, which he wrote following his falling away, is filled with sorrow fro sin and deep regret. It is clearly marked by his turning to the Lord with his whole heart. And He also instructed his son in the ways of God, "And you, Solomon, my son, know the God of your father [have personal knowledge of Him] and serve Him with a blameless heart and a willing mind. For the Lord searches all hearts and mind and understands all the wanderings of the thoughts. If you seek Him [inquiring for and of Him and requiring Him as your first and vital necessity] you will find Him; but if you forsake Him, He will cast you off forever! (1 Chronicles 28:9). Solomon, the wisest man on earth did not make inquiring of the Lord the first and vital necessity of his life. As a result, he was drawn away to follow other gods worshipped by his foreign wives. Solomon died with his heart turned away from God.

Do not depend on the arm of the flesh. Do not depend on your will-power or strength to keep you in the ways of the Lord. Constantly look unto Him and bring every issue in your life under the light of the Lord so that you will not be drawn away in a moment of weakness, or by the strange and subtle influences of the enemy and loose your precious salvation.

- Daniel O.C