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Walk With God Mic 6:6-8 (KJV) (6) “Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, [and] bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? (7) Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, [or] with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn [for] my transgression, the fruit of my body [for] the sin of my soul? (8) He hath shewed thee, O man, what [is] good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?” It is the desire of the Lord that everyone should come to know Him and to love Him. Many choose to ignore Him deliberately. Some choose to come half heartedly. Others choose to come laying down their all before Him and taking up only what He lays before them. Job was one of those who came whole heartedly, giving his all, and walking in repentance for himself and others. Yet for a season it seemed that Job had displeased God to have to suffer as he did. In the natural, the whole situation might have seemed unjust, but God wanted to work something into the life of Job that he did not yet have. Job had walked humbly before the Lord, but after his testing he knew how to walk humbly with the Lord. Too many Christians have only a concept of how they should walk before the Lord, but the Lord desires that we walk with Him. Luke 1:37-38 (KJV) (37) “For with God nothing shall be impossible. (38) And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.” Mary endured a situation to Job’s. Everyone thought that she had greatly sinned. Misunderstood, she was in danger of losing her life. Both serve as examples of the cost of breaking beyond our concepts of who God is to actually having the revelation of who God is. Col 1:27 (KJV) “To whom God would make known what [is] the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:” Trials will come as we walk with God, but we must remember that these trials not only equip us to better understand the sufferings of those around us, but also cause us to come to know the Lord in greater depth than ever before. Though trials are costly, they are essential for the maturing of the saints. Just as did Job and Mary, every saint must continue to speak with and listen to God while learning to walk with Him. -Kurt Thurston August Newsletter 2004 | The Day of the Lord | Walk with God | Pastor's Journal August 2003 The Passion Within part 2 of 3 | Impartation and Increase part 2 of 3 |
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