A Worthy Walk

In Colossians 1.10 we see "a worthy walk." Briefly give your answer as to what is expected of the Christian walk.

There are a few things to consider here. First of all, in and of ourselves, we are not worthy of Christ at all due to Adamic and personal sin. Secondly, thanks to Christ's substitutionary death on the cross in our stead and our acceptance of that gift we are made worthy to be called the sons of God. Therefore this verse must never be taken out of context and twisted to mean that we can somehow earn our salvation.


What this verse and passage are talking about is the life we live and the choices we make each moment after we accept Christ. God grants us grace, mercy, and forgiveness each day as we grow in our knowledge, understanding and application of His Word in our lives. Singer-song writer, Mark Hall, described it well in the song Lifesong. He likened the daily walk/life as a Christian to a report at the end of the day which Christ reviews with the Christian and signs His name to in an overall approval of that day. Now what makes a day a good one, a day or life that is worthy of Christ's holy and perfect name?
I would actually use this verse (10) to as a springboard to direct someone to Matthew 22.37 where Christ quotes Deutronomy 6.5 and adds one more aspect to it.


In Deuteronomy Moses says, "Love the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy strength." In Matthew, Christ says nothing about strength but mentions the mind instead,"Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind" and tags on a second commandment quoting the levitical law, Leviticus 19.18-b, "thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself". He goes on to say that all the rest of the laws stem from these two.



The Christian life should be characterized by love, integrity, gratefullness, growth, wisdom, and fruit bearing. We should be striving for perfection every waking moment we have. We have the ability to do this each day through the power of the Holy Spirit. While we live with the consquenses of Adamic and personal sin we actually have the real ability to grow in our knowledge, understanding of God and His Word so much that we make the right decision every time. This is the burden and expectation of a walk worthy of Christ.


Now here is the wrench in this that we wrestle with each day, what about the days when we sin, even just once? Praise God, He knows that is going to happen because we are not perfect until we reach heaven. And our minds have been severely limited and sometimes kept from the Word of God totally until we get saved. Once God adopts us as His child, we are seen as students with God as our teacher through our parents (hopefully), Pastors, etc. Does a child automatically know everything there is to know upon birth? No. Neither do we as Christians upon salvation. Upon salvation we are imputed with the Holy Spirit and the desire to learn the Word of God grows in us and we begin to read, study, learn, and apply the truths found therein to our daily lives/walks. This takes time and as we learn we become more joyful in our new knowledge and growth/maturity in Christ that this pleases Him, as it says back in this verse 10.



So a worthy walk would consist of a joyful life, evangelism, striving for Christlike perfection, all out of our love and gratitude for our Creator and Savior.

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