Walking with God

Ephesians 2:10  For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.

Looking back on your life’s journey, the paths you have walked, I wonder, did you ever imagine for just one minute that you would have found yourself in place you occupy today. I wonder how different your vision is from the time you started to consider your future on leaving school.

 

I also wonder how your hours over the years have been occupied, what different avenues of work you have followed or what has employed your mind in your hours of work.

I recently saw this four line quote.

Look back and thank God.

Look forward and trust God.

Look around and serve God.

Look within and find God.

It’s not a bad motive for our day to day relationship was we walk with God.

There is a marker on a rock near the top of Mount Washington, marking the spot where a woman climber lay down and died. She was so close to the top that she could almost hit it with a stone. A hundred steps more and she would have reached the shelter she sought, but she did not know this. Disheartened by the storm, beaten in body and distressed in spirit, she was at the end of her courage. She could not see a step ahead, so she lay down and died one hundred steps to walk from her goal.

Paul has some this to say about this when he wrote to the Galatian “…. let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.” (6:9)

When we consider the verse from Ephesians we need to be mindful that we “are God’s work of art”. Everything that we have become, every good and beautiful thing we do is simply God at work in us and through us. We are “created in Christ Jesus to live the good life as from the beginning he had meant us to live it”. But our doing so depends entirely on our openness to his guidance and help as we walk with him.

Help me, Lord, to work in a way that honours you above all. May every word I speak, every action I take, every thought I think, every emotion I feel glorify you. May my work this day be an act of worship, a tangible expression of praise. Amen.