Walk With Jesus Today
“So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him.”
Colossians 2:6 (NIV)
The Christian life is described as a walk, and that is not accidental.
A walk happens one step at a time. It covers ground slowly. It is unremarkable to watch. And it gets you somewhere, provided you keep doing it.
We would usually prefer a different image. We would like the whole route displayed in advance, with distances marked and arrival times confirmed. But God rarely gives the map. He gives the next step, and He gives Himself for the journey.
Paul writes, “just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him.” The older translations say, “so walk ye in him.”
Now look closely at the logic, because Paul is doing something important. He says the way you continue is the same as the way you began. How did you receive Christ? Not by achievement. Not by qualifying. You received Him by grace, through faith, with empty hands. Paul’s point is: carry on the same way. Do not begin in the Spirit and try to continue in the flesh, which is exactly the error he confronts in Galatians 3:3.
That matters because of what was happening in Colossae. False teachers were telling the believers that Jesus was a good start but that they needed something extra to really progress: special knowledge, rule-keeping, dietary restrictions, angelic experiences. Paul’s answer runs through the whole letter. In Christ “all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and in Christ you have been brought to fullness” (Colossians 2:9-10). You do not need a supplement. You need to go deeper into what you already have.
So walking with Jesus is not a technique to be mastered. It is a relationship to be lived.
And notice the title Paul uses: “Christ Jesus as Lord.” Not merely Saviour. Lord. That word carries the full weight of ownership and authority. The Christian life is not Jesus attached to a life you continue to direct. It is a life handed over. You cannot receive Him as Lord and then walk as though you were still in charge of the route.
What does this walk actually look like on a Thursday?
It looks like conversation. Talking to Him about the meeting before it happens, and about how it went afterwards. 1 Thessalonians 5:17 says pray continually, which is less about long sessions and more about an unbroken line stayed open.
It looks like listening. Not to impressions and hunches primarily, but to Scripture, where God has already spoken clearly. Psalm 119:105 calls His word a lamp to our feet. Note: a lamp to the feet, not a floodlight over the whole landscape. It shows the next step.
It looks like following the leading of the Holy Spirit. Romans 8:14 says those who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. He does lead, and He never leads contrary to the Word He inspired.
And it looks like obeying what He puts in front of you. Which brings us to the point most of us need most.
You do not have to solve your whole future today. You do not need to know how every situation resolves. The question is far simpler and far more searching: Lord, what is the next faithful step?
It might be making a phone call you have been putting off for weeks. It might be apologising to someone, and doing it properly rather than with a qualified half-apology. It might be starting the thing you have prayed about for a year and never begun. It might be refusing a temptation you have been negotiating with. It might be turning off the screen and going to bed at a sensible hour so that you are actually present with your family tomorrow.
None of that is dramatic. That is precisely the point. Small acts of obedience are the raw material of a faithful life. Nobody drifts into godliness. It is built one ordinary decision at a time.
Let me guard one thing. This is not a self-improvement programme with Jesus as motivation. Look at the verse immediately following in Colossians 2:7: “rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.” Rooted. Built up. Strengthened. All passive verbs, all things done to you. You take the step; He supplies the strength. Philippians 2:13 holds both together: “it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfil his good purpose.”
So do not walk out of this reading resolving to try harder in your own strength. That road ends in exhaustion, and we have all been down it. Walk out asking Him for grace for the next step, and then take it.
And do not borrow tomorrow’s burden. Jesus said it plainly: “do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own” (Matthew 6:34). The grace you need for next March has not been issued yet, and that is not neglect. It is how God intends dependence to work. Israel gathered manna daily; anyone who hoarded it found it spoiled by morning.
You will get grace for today. Tomorrow will have its own grace waiting when you arrive.
So you do not need the whole map. Take the next obedient step with Jesus, and trust Him with everything that comes after it.
Prayer
Lord Jesus, I received You by grace and I want to keep walking the same way. Forgive me for taking back the direction of a life I handed over to You. I do not need the whole map today; I need the next step, and I need grace to take it. Show me what it is. Give me the will and the strength, because You supply both. Keep me from borrowing tomorrow’s burden, and let me walk today rooted, built up and thankful. In Your name, amen.
Declaration
I do not need the whole map. I have the next step and the grace to take it, and Jesus walks it with me.
Pastor Ras
All Nations Community Church
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