If We Walk

Monday, April 22, 2024

  Good morning, Lord

Verse of the Day:   Luke 17:24 "...because the Son of Man in his day will be like lightning that flashes and lights up the sky from one horizon to the other."

Memory verse: Romans 8:32 ►He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?  

Today's reading: 2 SAMUEL 16-18 LUKE 17:20-37

If We Walk

If we walk in the light, we walk in God. If we walk in the darkness we do not walk in God. But if we start out walking in God and stumble and cease to walk in the light--and keep moving without facing the truth--then we continue our movement outside of God.

We move. One way or the other we move. If we move outside of God, it is emptiness. There is an entire world that tries to act happy and full. The enemy tries to present a path that is truth and calls God's path old and antiquated, useless and meaningless.

There is no truth in this and we know it.

If I stumble and fall I try to pick up my feet and watch where I am going so as to not stumble again. We all do this. We have known how to walk for a long time and we have known how to learn from stumbles past. This is a physical truth from which we cannot escape.

Then why do we try to escape the truth-the real truth? The real truth is that God has written His laws on our hearts and filled us with His Holy Spirit and if we walk in Him we will not stumble.

The truth tells us in 1 John 1:8-10 we do not have to call God a liar and walk in darkness and sin.

The truth says that we do not have to lie to ourselves.

The truth says that we can confess our sins and walk away free in the light and in Him. The truth says that if we walk and stumble that we can confess and keep on walking in God and in the truth.

The truth is we need to embrace the truth...

...because the Truth loves us...

...because the Light loves us...

...because He loves us...

Father In Heaven,

Holy Lord of All,  I confess that I am not conscious of You enough to really watch where I am going and then I realize it is pointless without You. I ask for the real desire to be conscious of You all the time.

Provider of all kingdom things,

In the name of Jesus Christ,

Amen