“I therefore, a
prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to
which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience,
bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in
the bond of peace.” –Ephesians
4:1-3 (ESV).
Soon after I became a Christian at an early age, I remember
my pastor, the Rev. Claude Boynton, a great teacher and saint of the Lord,
preaching a sermon on how our daily walk—the manner we live our lives following
Christian principles—should be taken with seriousness and deep
consideration. “We are ‘little Christs’”
he said, “and representatives for Him in the world.” I remember how he taught that we should be
humble, gentle, patient, and how we should become loving burden-bearers and
peace-seekers. Then he quoted from the
poem by Annie Johnson Flint, “The World’s Bible.” Please access it online, if you haven’t
memorized it, and read it in its entirety to give you impetus for the
importance of living what we believe as Christians. Here is one verse of her words that have been
set to music: “We are the only Bible/The
careless world will read;/We are the sinner’s gospel,/We are the scoffer’s
creed;/We are the Lord’s last message,/Given in deed and word;/What if the type
is crooked,/What if the print is blurred?”
Our Christian walk is very important, both to ourselves and
to others. Mike Van Hoozer expressed our
living vitally in these words: “Learn
from the past, prepare for the future, and perform in the present.”
May our Christian walk be strengthened day by day by Him who
promised, “And behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age”
(Matthew 28:20b, ESV)
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