I have often mentioned how much I enjoy Bob Hoekstra’s Daily Devotionals, which are available at Blue Letter Bible. The selection today is entitled, More on Walking with Jesus the Way We Received Him. Here are a few excerpts from his helpful writing:
As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving. (Colossians 2:6-7)
The manner in which we received the Lord is the very same manner in which we are to walk in Him. “As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him.”
We received Him by grace, we must walk by grace.
We were born again by the Spirit, we must walk by the Spirit.
Furthermore, when we first received Christ, He was our only hope. Now, we are to walk with Him the same way.
Truly, we need the Lord Jesus as much now for living the Christian life, as we needed Him at the beginning to be born again into it.