COLOSSIANS 2

6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:

7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

WALK AS YOU RECEIVED CHRIST

We often wonder, how do we walk as Christians?

Paul says in verse 6, that we should walk, as we received Christ when we first came to faith, so how did we come to faith?

We came in faith, we came as little children and with a humble and contrite heart.

When we came to faith in Christ, we came in repentance, we came completely dependent on Christ and upon him alone for salvation.

Coming to faith in Christ, was amazing to us, we received Him with joy and were praising God.

We should walk in the same joyful manner, that we came to faith, for me, I can remember every moment of that special night, it was and is a joyful memory. Oh to walk in that same freshness of joy.

The famous hymn says:

Where is the blessedness I knew when first I sought the Lord?

Where is the soul refreshing view of Jesus and His Word?

Walking with God | Hymnary.org

So we are to walk in the same way, if we walk in faith, and as little children completely dependent on Christ with a humble and contrite heart.

We should walk with a repentant and penitent heart.

We should walk with a heart full of praise.

We should walk with a humble heart.

When we came to know Christ in salvation, we came humbly to the foot of the cross, we came without pride, not trusting in our own works, but crying out to God for salvation.

We came without hope and without anything, we came with nothing.

We only brought our sin.

We need to walk as believers in the same way we came to salvation, we had nothing to offer God, when we came to faith, but he forgave us all our sins and filled us anew.

Believe me, don’t I know it. God took a useless sinner such as me and filled me full of his holy spirit.

Pride was completely thrown out of the window at the cross, so it needs to be when walking daily with our Lord.

It is never about us.

If we walk in the same way, as we came to faith, we will be rooted deeply in Christ and we will have stability in our faith.

So often we lose the joy of our first love, just like the church in Ephesus.

Let us seek to keep that freshness of our first love, and to walk with Christ, as we received Christ.

God bless you
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