Walking With God

Hebrews 4 : 8 - 10, For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day. There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His. NKJV

We demonstrate our complete trust in God by our obedience to His commands.

 I have written many times about God being with us, but today I want to discuss us walking with God. Enoch walked with God, and God took him, so he wouldn't see death. The writer of Hebrews tells us, "By faith, Enoch walked with God." Every day that you and I keep the commandments of God and ignore human fears, lusts, and weaknesses, we are literally walking by faith. As we walk with God by faith, we're resisting the temptation to allow our hearts to lead our lives.

As we continue to walk with God through our obedient faith, we will become sensitive to the presence of the Holy Spirit with us in a very real way. Now let's digress for a moment. The Israelites struggled constantly with a lack of confidence when it came to trusting the truth that, indeed, God was with them. Why did they struggle with this issue, yet Moses didn't struggle? Moses walked with God, but the Jews refused to obey God because of hardened hearts of unbelief. Psalms 103 tells us plainly that Moses knew the ways of God, but Israel simply knew the acts of God. We can only know the ways of God by obeying Him through our faith. 

Now let's get back to your "MOUNTAINS." Whenever the Israelites would run into a life-threatening situation (like a lack of food or water), they were immediately ready to turn their backs on God, but this wasn't so with Moses. Remember, Moses walked with God through obedience, but the Jews hardened their hearts to His voice. You see... unbelief blinded the Jews to the consequences of walking contrary to the ways of God, but we see what unbelief does to a person once calamity hits. It causes them to feel as though God has forsaken or abandoned them. Moses never struggled with these feelings because HE WALKED WITH GOD! If we obey, through faith, then we are walking with God, and when trouble comes, we won't struggle with the issues of unbelief...which causes us to feel as if God has forgotten about us.

Once you get past the point of struggling over whether or not to obey God's way, then you have begun to enter the rest of God. You will know when you have entered into His rest when you can have complete peace in the midst of a horrific storm. Instead of retreating in unbelief because of the adverse winds, you will be still until you see the salvation of the Lord. Are you just a Christian, or are you a Christian, who is daily walking with God? Jesus tells us in John 8 that He was never alone because the Father was with Him. He said, "I do always those things which please my Father."   
 
Hebrews 10 : 36 - 39, For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise: "For yet a little while, and He who is coming will come and will not tarry. Now the just shall live by faith; but if anyone draws back, My soul has no pleasure in him." But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul. NKJV

Amen and Amen,
Pastor Asa