Walk Faithfully

Sitting is comfortable. We all like to sit. Studies show that the average person can only stand comfortably for about 20 minutes. Then they want to sit. Standing is uncomfortable. Walking or running is even more uncomfortable for extended periods of time. Eventually our weak bodies give out and we must either sit and rest or collapse from exhaustion.

Are you sitting in your faith? Are you sitting in your relationship with Christ? You never hear someone ask you how your sit with Christ is going. They always ask you how your walk with Christ is going. In Genesis 5 we read about a man named Enoch. He walked with God faithfully for 300 years and then “was no more” because God took him. Walking implies movement and progress. If you are sitting in your relationship with Christ then you are stuck in sluggish passivity.  The true Christian life is one of growth, progress, and development, not one of idleness and comfort. Though walking may be uncomfortable at times, we are called to do it faithfully.

You may be standing for Christ. You may acknowledge your faith publicly and be sharing your faith as you stand. But standing is only half way to walking. You must move. You must progress. You must journey. You must grow in your faith. You cannot grow and progress whilst you are sitting down or standing in place. We are called to take up our cross and follow Jesus, not take up our cross and stand in place or take up our cross and then set it down and pop a squat. You have not been called to pop a squat. You have been called to follow Jesus and that begins with movement, with walking faithfully.