(Colossians 1:9-12)…..9 For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 10 that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11 strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; 12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light.
No one is worthy to be saved, the worthy walk is not a walk that qualifies us to be a Christian. It’s not the reason for our salvation, it is our response to our salvation. In light of all that God has done for you, the only reasonable thing to do is to live for Him. So are you walking worthy of your calling (1 Thessalonians 2:10-12). Oh, I know it is hard, and yet it is expected by our God to walk worthy of our calling. When you hear and see the words “walk worthy” in Scripture – what comes to mind?
Just what would it look like in the life of a Christian who is walking worthy in his/her faith? First, I firmly believe that God calls us out of sin and into a radically transformed lifestyle of righteous living where we’re no longer free to do as our old nature desired. We’ve been bought with a price and are called to glorify God with our actions (1 Corinthians 6:20). Second, it is not that we are to live up to the gospel, but rather we are to live out of the gospel in our lives. I think that is an incredibly important distinction. We need to look at “walking worthy” as not “here’s your calling…now live up to it, but here’s your calling….now live out of it.
“Remember you are God’s sword – His instrument – I trust a chosen vessel unto Him to bear His name. In great measure, according to the purity and perfections of the instrument, will be the success. It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God.”
Robert Murray M’Cheyne