"The Right Walk"

July 29, 2020 | By Chuck

“Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more”(I Thess.4:1). The idea of “walk” in this verse has to do with how one lives every day. Paul is urging the Thessalonian Christians to “walk” in a way that pleases God. This very “walk” should be the focus of all Christians today. I should make it a point to live every day in a way that pleases God.
Paul gets more specific about what it means to walk in a way that is pleasing to God. He mentions how Christians are to “abstain from sexual immorality” (I Thess.4:3). Christians are to control their “own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust”(I Thess.4:4-5). The child of God should not “transgress and wrong his brother”(I Thess.4:6). It’s very clear what the right walk looks like. It’s a life that is first and foremost about honoring and pleasing God. When that becomes the Christian’s daily priority, avoiding sin and growing spiritually will be the positive results.
“But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin”(I John 1:7).