The Worthy Walk

| Apr 21, 2024

"I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;" Ephesians 4:1-4

If anybody had an excuse to feel like God had not kept His promises and taken care of him, it was the Apostle Paul. He faithfully and fearlessly proclaimed the truth of the gospel across the Roman Empire. In response he was beaten, stoned, jailed, falsely accused, and imprisoned. Paul could have used those hardships as an excuse to stop serving God. Instead, he saw all these troubles as nothing compared to the importance of the cause and the certainty of the reward. “For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory” (2 Corinthians 4:17).

What Paul recognized was that circumstances do not dictate conduct. The necessity of walking in a way that was worthy of being a child of God was the same in jail as it was in a synagogue. The fact that Paul was in jail did not change his responsibility to God and others. The fact that the people in Ephesus to whom he wrote were free did not change their responsibility either. In every situation, they were to do what was right and what would bring honor and glory to God. “I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need” (Philippians 4:12). In whatever situation we find ourselves, we are to do what is right, living up to the high privilege God has given us to be called His children.

PRAYER

In the name of Jesus I receive the grace for Obedience and faithfulness in every situation and circumstance of my lives.