I love theology. I always have since I was very young. I love to study the Bible and have been very blessed to grow up in a church that fed me spiritually from a very young age. However, my greatest difficulty has always been to put into daily practice what I know to be right from the Scripture.
Psalm 119:1 speaks about those that "walk in the law of the Lord". The Christian life is not lived in an easy chair at a desk surrounded by Biblical commentaries and theological works. It is a walk, lived out in the daily grind of normal life. It is good to be able to read the Word of God with understanding , but how much better it is to be able to live it out in our daily lives.
The Christian walk is not static, but is a steady moving onwards and upwards. Spurgeon said, "The holy life is a walk, a steady progress, a quiet advance, a lasting continuance". It is not a sudden burst of flame that soon dies out, but a steady glow that grows in strength and intensity. Proverbs 4:18 says that "the path of the just is like the shining sun, that shines ever brighter unto the perfect day." Our light needs to grow in brightness as we become more like our Saviour until we reach glory and the process of sanctification ends in our glorification when "we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is" (John 2:2).
The law of God needs to be our guiding star. We need to live in it, not just consult it every morning in our devotions or seek its comfort in times of trouble.
What would our lives look like if we truly walked in in the law of the Lord?
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