Walk By Faith (Daily Devotional)

Welcome to Living Supernaturally. It is good to have you here, where we look at the word of God, study it and apply it in our lives. Today, we are going to look at the word ‘walk’ and how in scripture we see many exhortations/ instructions on how to walk and how not to walk. We know that ‘to walk’ refers to how we regulate our life, how we conduct ourselves and the whole aspect of living our lives. It is not just the physical aspect of walking but how we live our lives when scriptures instruct about walking. In 2 Corinthians chapter 5, verses 7 and 8, this is what we read, ‘For we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.’ Paul makes that statement ‘we walk by faith and not by sight.’ In Hebrews chapter 11, verse 1, we know what faith is. Faith is the substance or the realization of things hoped for or the evidence/ confidence of the things that are yet not seen. How is it that Paul says that we walk by faith and not by sight? When we look at the context and the background leading up to this statement that Paul makes, we go back to the previous chapter which is 2 Corinthians chapter 4 and we read this in verse 8, where Paul says, ‘We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed— always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.’ He is saying, we are going through some difficult times, we are hard-pressed, we are perplexed, we are persecuted but we are not forsaken. He is saying we carry about in us the dying of the Lord, the whole aspect of the death, the burial of the Lord and the life of the Lord may also be manifested in our bodies. There is something happening, he has got this internal perspective that the life of Jesus is in me, the resurrection power is in me, the Zoe- God kind of life is in me and we are carrying this treasure in this earthen vessel. He was very strong in saying that the life of Jesus will be manifested in my body. Also, we see further down in verse 16 of chapter 4 of 2 Corinthians, it says ‘therefore, we do not lose heart.’ Even though we might be perplexed, persecuted, hard-pressed, it says, ‘Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.’ Again, talking about the Spirit, the God kind of life, the Zoe kind of life that he has in him and he says in verse 18, 2 Corinthians chapter 4, ‘while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.’ He is talking about the eternal perspective that he has and the reality of the spiritual realm. The fact that he is confident about those things, he is saying that we look at things that are unseen because the things that are seen are temporary, the things that are unseen, the spiritual realm is actually the eternal realm. That gives him great confidence, so he says, even if this tent is destroyed, we have a building form God and therefore he says, we walk by faith and not by sight. Let’s pray, Father, today, enable us to walk by faith and not by sight. Enable us to see those things that are unseen. Enable us to be grounded in the reality of the spiritual realm. Enable us to know that greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world. Enable us to know that the life of Christ is in us, giving life to our mortal bodies, so we can proclaim and declare, we walk by faith and not by sight, in Jesus’ name, Amen.

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