Walking Together in Love

Dead people do not walk, and it is impossible to think of a Christian “walking” until we realise that he possesses spiritual life in order to enable him to do so. “He that hath the Son that life,” and when we receive into our hearts by faith the life of God in Christ we have the certain guarantee of our Christian walk.

The Christian walk means activity in Christ and for Him. The life is not to be quiescent, but energetic. The proof of our possession of life lies in our Christian walk.

The Christian walk is not a solitary one, for, there is companionship in it; the Christian does not go it alone. This is true with reference to our fellow-Christians, and the New Testament is very clear in its emphasis on Christian love and fellowship. A purely individualistic Christian is no Christian at all. A solitary Christian is an utter misnomer. No one can be a New Testament Christian apart from fellowship with other Christians. In this companionship there is joy and strength and inspiration, and truly to be a saint in the Bible meaning of that word requires an experience of “the Communion of Saints.”