Keep Walking

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By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

Hebrews 11:8-10

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The call of God is a walk of faith. It is walking out an unseen reality, a walk led solely by the voice of God. The walk of faith is the walk of the Spirit of God, that the born again believer yields to. Without the Holy Spirit we can not walk out the call of God. The call of God is a press, an upward call that requires a reckoning of oneself dead to their flesh and alive to the Spirit of God. The apostle Paul writes in Philippians 3:14, "I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus."

This upward call in Christ is highly contended by our flesh and by evil spiritual forces. This contending against the call of God exerts external pressure on the believer to make one pause, draw back and ultimately quit. But the word of God encourages us to keep walking like a good soldier for Christ and to endure hardship by not engaging in the concerns of life on Earth (2 Tim. 2:3,4).

There is perfect provision in our new spiritual birth to please God, by walking out our faith. This is how Abraham, the father of faith, walked. He was called out from his kindred and land of natural birth, to a land of promise to sojourn as a stranger with like-minded folks of the same precious faith. Abraham tabernacled in the promise of the tent of the word of God, beholding the invisible reality of the city of God - the land that he longed to live in.

The church of the living God, the body of Christ, has now been granted access into the city of our God. We have become Mount Zion, the city of God, where God dwells with us and in us. God walks in the midst of us, strengthening us for this glory walk of Zion. We have been equipped in Christ to march onward unto victory and to overcome all the resistance that wants to hinder and halt our forward press.

By beholding Him, the Lord Jesus Christ, we keep walking the faith walk of the upward call of God and we do not lose the confidence that we had in the beginning when we first heard His voice to follow Him. The body of Christ, His precious remnant on Earth, is a mighty force enabled by God to execute His kingdom here and now.

So onward Christian soldier, keep walking the walk of faith!