Just walk – Intimacy on another level: part 2

Hey! I’m back. I just started my second semester of my junior year at my respected college on January 14, 2008. Prior to returning to campus I began to have concerns with my time management and walk (relationship) with God. So the whole time before coming I prayed that God would strengthen me to stay on task, that he would send people my way to help replenish me, and that He would basically sustain me while being in an environment where people aren’t as concerned about their relationship with God as me. Now that I look back on that prayer I realize all that was out of fear. It’s crazy huh? If you don’t get it now think about it a little bit. Now you get it huh? Yes, I was worried about slipping.

My first day of class which was the 14th I was doing my devotion, as I do every morning, and in my prayer I began to state the same things I mentioned earlier, about him keeping me. I mean I was PRAYING! I was really passionate in it because I was so scared that I would let God down, and I didn’t want him to stop speaking to me as He did while at home. Do you ever feel like that? Like God is going to take something away from you for any reason? Well, as I ended my prayer I heard the Holy Spirit say, “Just walk.” MAN! When I heard this I almost starting running (you know kind of like how the COGIC church does?). It was so potent to me because what I translated that to mean was, “don’t worry about slipping or disappointing me. Because if you’re focusing all your time, and energy on the problem then how much time and energy is being spent on other things i.e. the will of my kingdom, the solution, the word, etc.?” and I said, “are you SERIOUS God? You mean I’m worrying for nothing?” and the Holy Spirit said, “yes.”

So in essence, the lesson I learned was to be focused on things that really count. Because If I spend most of my time thinking about a problem I have, I’m basically giving myself over to it and ultimately saying God I don’t believe you can handle it. So God is saying to all of us “Just walk.” Paul the Apostle confirms then when he said in the book of Romans, “for if we walk in the spirit we will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.” But what gets us is when we allow whatever to warrant our attention when it doesn’t deserve it. So again “just walk” live your life as you are and as you meditate on God’s word he will then impart things that “sustain” you without you getting worried if he will or not.

Peace.