An Agreeable Walk

As a child my father would grasp my hand instructing me to look both ways before crossing the street. He pointed to the walk signal while we waited for it to change. When the signal flashed to walk, we stepped down from the curb and made our way across the wide avenue. My father walked with a brisk pace and I had to double up my speed. He gently warned the light would eventually change so we hurried across the street. Safely on the other side, the traffic broke free and a river of roaring metal streamed over the place where we stood just moments ago.

Genesis records that Enoch walked with God 365 years (Genesis 5:23). This man held tightly the hand of God all his days and in the end, it says God took him home to Himself!

To Abram God said, "walk before me and be blameless," and Abram became a transformed man when he walked out his front door and headed toward Canaan - his name changed as his wife - and they became the father and mother of a mighty nation.

King Hezekiah fully recovered from an illness that nearly took his life prayed, "I shall walk carefully all my years" (Isaiah 38:15). He had only 15 years promised to him so he measured his pace, took in the beauty around him and appreciated God even more.

And to us God says in I John 1:6, "He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked." The footsteps of Jesus took him many miles throughout Israel and it's borders, but always his feet were directed to the cross.

The disciples promised to follow him to very end, but forsook Him. They couldn't go where only He would travel. It was the one street they feared to cross, the Via Dolorosa, the Way of Sorrows, that led to Calvary.

Are we willing to take God's hand, keep in pace with the Spirit's leading regardless to where He might lead us? It could be heavenward like Enoch, a new homeland as in Abraham's walk, or to a place of sorrow but later, a resurrected hope and light in times of suffering.

The key to walking with God is we must be in agreement with Him. He leads, we follow. Let me leave you with this Scripture. Pray and ask the Lord is there any argument or resistance in my heart to taking His hand? Can two people walk together without agreeing on the direction? Amos 3:3 (NLT).