“When
Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God
Almighty; walk before me faithfully…” Genesis 17:1
O that we may walk before God as God requires of us!
Many ask, “How should the believer walk with or before God?”
We may say many things in answer to this question, but the above-cited
Bible verse gives a very simple answer – a
believer should walk before God faithfully.
If you really want to walk with God better, and were wondering how you
could do it, then right here is the solution to your wondering; all you need to do is to walk with Him
faithfully.
After examining how you have walked with God till now, you will surely
identify some areas, a handful or numerous of them, in which you have deviated from
the faithfulness that’s required of you. Correct each one of them today, right
now, because the next minute is not guaranteed to you.
But what’s the definition of faithful? English is a second language for
me, so I need to check the definitions of some English words now and then.
An online check for the definition of ‘faithful’ returned the following:
“remaining loyal and steadfast.” Glory
to God!
Just to be certain, I decided to look up the definitions of loyal and steadfast.
I found out that the word loyal
means “showing firm and constant
allegiance.” This is getting more
interesting.
I also found that the word steadfast
means “the quality of being resolutely or dutifully firm
and unwavering.”
These definitions got me thinking. They are simply profound, given the
topic.
From the above-cited definitions, I itemize below the words that
describe how we should walk before God. If you understand the words, it means
you know how to proceed in your walk with the Father; but of course, the choice
remains yours as to how you would proceed to conduct your life.
Listen to the words:
·
loyally;
·
unwavering;
·
with
firmness;
·
with
constant allegiance;
·
steadfastly;
·
dutifully;
·
resolutely.
Granted some of the words could be duplicated but itemizing them all is
most likely to give you the picture that I want you to see.
If only we could attain this status before God and maintain it going
forward, our lives would surely never remain the same!
Note carefully the following verse: “Then
I will make my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your
numbers.” Genesis 17:2
We are in the season of grace. I however want you to know that grace
does not absolve us of our obligation to act right before God. Grace should
actually encourage us to always align our conduct with the will of God.
Sometimes we misconstrue grace, leading us into living lesser lives than we
ought to before God. God told Abraham to walk faithfully before Him, “then [He] will make His covenant between [Him]
and [Abraham] and will greatly increase [Abraham’s] numbers.
If you are faithful before God, He will give you a new name, a name that
you may not use in this life, but a heavenly name by which the Father will call
you. The new name means that God sees you in a new light, He can trust you, He
can depend on you, He can confide in you, and He respects you because of your
faithfulness.
“No longer will you be called Abram; your name
will be Abraham …” Genesis 17:5
I think that if God decides to use somebody, He would have first conducted
a careful assessment of the being. Normally, God chooses somebody He trusts
will always follow through with His will or instructions in every situation.
And this is independent of how the person would have walked before God before,
as long as the person gets to the required turning point in his/her life.
“On that very day, Abraham took his son Ishmael
and all those born in his household or bought with his money, every male in his
household, and circumcised them, as God told him.” Genesis 17:23
Circumcision is not the message here. What I want you to see in this
verse is that Abraham did exactly as God had commanded him, thereby demonstrating
his faithfulness.
How should we walk before God? Faithfully.
Quite a lesson it is for us believers.
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