“So walk in Him” (Colossians 2:6)

Walk IN Christ. Christ called Himself the Way (John 14:6), and the early Christians identified themselves as people of the Way (Acts 19:9). This is a singular Way, in union with the Messiah, leading to Heaven. The apostle James told those who thought they were in the Way, “lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted Word, which is able to save your souls. But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves” (James 1:21-22).

The Walk accomplishes much. “So walk IN Him” isn’t just a set of rules. The power of Christ rest upon saints who allow His grace to motivate them, enabling  them to walk in faith, working through love (2 Corinthians 12:9, Galatians 5:6). “Whoever keeps His Word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked” (1 John 2:3-6).

The Walk improves the saint. “Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord” (2 Corinthians 3:17-18).

The Walk is the One and Only Way. Walking implies continuance. There must be a perpetual abiding in Christ. Many Christians think if they do a morning devotion, they can give their hearts to the world all day. This is foolishness. “Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God” (1 John 3:10).

“As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith” (Colossians 2:6-7).

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