Morning, November 9
Charles Spurgeon · Morning and Evening: Daily Readings
Colossians 2:6
"So walk ye in him."
Colossians 2:6
If we have received Christ himself in our inmost hearts, our new life
will manifest its intimate acquaintance with him by a walk of faith in
him. Walking implies action. Our religion is not to be confined to our
closet; we must carry out into practical effect that which we believe.
If a man walks in Christ, then he so acts as Christ would act; for
Christ being in him, his hope, his love, his joy, his life, he is the
reflex of the image of Jesus; and men say of that man, "He is like his
Master; he lives like Jesus Christ." Walking signifies progress. "So
walk ye in him"; proceed from grace to grace, run forward until you
reach the uttermost degree of knowledge that a man can attain
concerning our Beloved. Walking implies continuance. There must be a
perpetual abiding in Christ. How many Christians think that in the
morning and evening they ought to come into the company of Jesus, and
may then give their hearts to the world all the day: but this is poor
living; we should always be with him, treading in his steps and doing
his will. Walking also implies habit. When we speak of a man's walk and
conversation, we mean his habits, the constant tenor of his life. Now,
if we sometimes enjoy Christ, and then forget him; sometimes call him
ours, and anon lose our hold, that is not a habit; we do not walk in
him. We must keep to him, cling to him, never let him go, but live and
have our being in him. "As ye have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so
walk ye in him"; persevere in the same way in which ye have begun, and,
as at the first Christ Jesus was the trust of your faith, the source of
your life, the principle of your action, and the joy of your spirit, so
let him be the same till life's end; the same when you walk through the
valley of the shadow of death, and enter into the joy and the rest
which remain for the people of God. O Holy Spirit, enable us to obey
this heavenly precept.