As I was reading in Colossians this morning this verse just jumped out at me and I thought “YES!“
“As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him.” Colossians 2:6
Yes, Lord, I want to walk in You. My next thought was, “How do I do that…
what does that look like?”
I always read God’s word with a sense of:
“What is it saying is possible for me.
What is it revealing about God’s plan for my life?”
I want to live in the fullness of all that God has for me but, more often than I’d like to admit, I feel like I fall way short of His original intent for me.
I ask you God:
“What was your original intent for me?
What did you have in mind when You created me?”
From the above-mentioned verse, I see that I am to walk in Jesus.
This is my heart’s desire.
“Teach me Lord how to walk in You.”
I imagine Him standing right behind me and me leaning into Him, allowing Him to wrap around me. We are together, I am safe in His arms.
I am reminded of one of my first times snow skiing. I went with the youth group from my church. I had been sticking with the bunny hill (for beginners) when my best friends cool older brother passed by and said, “Hey, come with us.” Well, I couldn’t say no, they were the older cooler people and they were inviting me to hang out with them?!?!
So, I jumped on the ski lift with him having NO idea what I was getting myself into. As we went higher and higher on the lift, I looked down at a daunting course with many twists and turns, turns that if you missed sent you flying off the cliff.
I said, pointing to the course below, “Thank God I am not going down that one.”
He laughed at me and said, “Yes you are.”
Shear panic hit me. “Oh no, what am I going to do, I can’t, this is terrifying, I don’t want to do this, I change my mind, do over, I am totally going to embarrass myself.” These are just a few of the thoughts that were racing through my mind. Then I realized, wait, I don’t even know how to get off the ski lift. On the bunny hill you are pulled up by a rope. What did I get myself into? I was seriously crying out to God, “HELP ME!”
Well, I managed to clumsily get myself off the sky lift without totally embarrassing myself or falling flat on my face. But now I was just standing there frozen having no idea what to do. I had a million scenarios playing in my mind and none of them looked good. The good looking, older, cooler guy must have seen the terror in my eyes and said, “Why don’t you put your skis between mine, hold onto me and we can go down together.” I can’t tell you how relieved and freaked out I was hearing those words.
He positioned his skis to the outside of mine, put his arms with mine holding the ski poles and we began the horrifying descent. Well, I obviously survived but not without a bruised ego and some emotional trauma to work through. This is where I would display a row of emoji’s to try and express all the feelings.
As I imagined what it looked like to walk in Jesus, this is the memory He brought to my mind. What a great visual. This memory of me burying myself in my best friend’s cool older brother counting on his skill, ability, and patience to safely get me down the mountain with all the needed navigation to survive the twist and turns.
Yes, this is what Jesus wants to do for us. He wants to wrap His life around ours and navigate us through all the twist and turns of this life. He wants us to go through it together. We don’t have to be afraid. We don’t have to do it alone. We don’t have to figure it all out.
The One who has all the skill, ability, and patience we need is saying, “Walk in Me.”
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