Walk This Way

I Corinthians 3:3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

Are we to walk as men?  Are we even men?  Many in the world today would quickly stand and shout their manhood.  A woman or man who acts in the stereotypical as a woman’s woman or man’s man can puff out the chest in some pride.  Yet, even the best man or woman falls short of the mark.  Does a Christian man or woman fit the description of man?  The Bible is very quick to describe the attributes of man in the most negative and severe way.  There is described the great wickedness of man which grieved God for creation’s corruption and inevitable destruction.  It also states that the heart of the sons of men is full of evil.  Are the saved and born-again still of man?  Does not this verse cut to the quick of the matter?  Isn’t the history of the world fraught with envying, strife, and divisions?  Every war devised by men was because of the progressive advancement of this evil trifecta.  Envy leads to strife and strife to division.  Such is the woven tapestry of man’s historical record. 

The Bible states unequivocally that when we are saved we become new creatures.  The Word of God can criticize the new creature as carnal, but is careful not to describe this creature as man.  We are no longer men and women as God sees man, but have become children of God.  Why not act and walk as a new creature; a child of God.  When we find ourselves acting as the world we should consider our new heritage and inheritance.  God has written His Word to show, as best we can know, how to become and be a child of God.  In other words, God points to the Word and says, “Walk this way!”  As Jesus ministered to the world many heard Him say, “Walk this way!”  Many times we open the Bible for study, help, or joy and see in bold print, “Walk this say!”         

Ephesians 5:8, 10, 1, 2 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. 

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour.

How does your walk stack up against these passages?  There’s an old joke where a person looks back at someone else and says, “Walk this way”, and instead of going in a new direction, the person surprises everyone by walking in a silly fashion or strange way.  The joke is a play on words but the point is plain.  When God says, “Walk this way”, he means it literally as the joke would suggest and in a new direction to boot!  To the world it is a strange, weird, or uncommon walk.  To God it is the walk of a child of God.

Is our walk common and normal to this world?

Or, does our walk say, as Jesus said, “Walk this way!”