Walking in the Truth
Let’s first
examine ourselves; are we walking in the Truth? Are we obedient? Are we making
our God and the leaders happy?
In the Third Epistle of John, in verse 4, “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.” Here,
Apostle John feels happy to know that his spiritual children are walking in
truth. Always pastors, elders and leaders feel happy and rejoice when disciples
and believers in the church are walking on the Truth. Mostly, I feel happy when
those believers who were walking on the wrong tracks towards death and return
back to right track towards eternal life.
If the leaders
and pastors, become happy extremely when believers walked in the truth. Now,
let’s imagine how our heavenly Father may feel? Obviously, God the Father and
Jesus Christ will be happy when we walk in the truth.
It hurts
pastor when sometimes believers are on wrong way and become disobedient to God.
Many believers don’t understand these things. We should learn to understand it.
Now let’s talk about the meaning of walking on the truth. What is truth and how
to walk in the truth?
#These are
the most important things to know:-
[A] Walking
in the truth-To know the truth
We all know
the verse John 14:6, Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through
Me.”
John 14:16-17,
“And I will pray the Father, and He will
give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever-
“the
Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him
nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.”
John 16:13,
“However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will
not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He
will tell you things to come.”
[B] Walking
in the truth-to be obedient
Very best is
to follow the truth who is Jesus Christ. Obedient is because of the love
and not because of fear. To say “I love God” is easy but proof will be in
action. No love, it means no obedient.
Walking in
the truth is to have love in us. Love not only those who loved us but for those
also to whom we feel hate. Luke 6:32-33, “But
if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners
love those who love them.
“And if you do good to those who do
good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.”
But the
problem is sin so; people can’t fulfill the great commandments. The reason is
people have become selfish from inside; they love only themselves no other.
John 13:
34-35, “And new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have
loved you, that you also love one
another.
“By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” If we love each other everyone can
understand God is with us. Love is the mark of a true disciple. People will see
love for one another which will clarify that we are the follower of Jesus
Christ.
Many time people
they try to pretend that they are a Christian who follows Christ. And they try
to be good during fellowship, only inside the church’s building. But in reality
their life is different. If we love one another as Jesus loves us then all will
know that we are the follower of Jesus Christ.
John 14:15,
“If
you love me, keep My commandments.” if we love God then we must obey
Him and He will give us Holy Spirit. The love in our life will be proof that we
are obeying God’s commandments. In John 14:21, “he who has My commandments and keeps them, it is who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I
will love him and manifest Myself to him.” obeying the word of God is to
Love Him. Do you know why God command us to Love Him and to obey His word
because to give us joy. So, we can have a joy and peace. (John 15:10-11) “If you keep my My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I
have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.
“These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that
your joy may be full.”
To love your
neighbor is to fulfilling all the law. The summary and conclusion of all
commandments comes in this commandment i.e. “love your neighbor like you love
yourself”.
[C]Walking
in the Truth- Faith which has love in action
Galatians 5:6, “for in union with the Messiah Jesus neither circumcision nor
uncircumcision matters. What matters is faith
expressed through love.”
James 2:14, “what good does it do, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith but
does not prove it with actions? This kind of faith cannot save him, can it?
I have faith only saying is not enough. Faith should be proving itself with
actions. One friend of mine, he always say to me, “how much I have faith in
God, I know you can’t understand it.” But his action of faith doesn’t suit to
his faith in God.
James 2:17,
“in
the same way, faith by itself, if it does not prove itself with actions, is
dead.”
[D]Walking in the Truth-learn to forgive
Col. 3:15, “Be tolerant of one another and forgive each
other if anyone has a complaint against another. Just as the Lord has forgiven
you, you also should forgive.”
We want
forgiveness, then we must to learn to forgive, we everybody may have demerits,
which other are enduring so, others demerits also we need to endure. Love will
cover all the multitude sin. Love never sees other sin and blame. So, love each
other very deeply. 1 Peter 4:8, “Above all, continue to love each other deeply,
because love covers a multitude of sins.”
Conclusion:-So,
let’s walk in the truth and let the world know that we are the Disciples of
Christ. Always our thought must be how we can love other and how we can
encourage other (Hebrews 10:24, “And let
us continue to consider how to motivate one another to love and good deeds”).
Don’t left behind anyone, together we are strong not alone. And let us walk in
the truth through actions so; we can have joy in full. Let us become the
example of the truth which is our Lord Jesus Christ. And let us make our God
happy. And let us make our pastor and leaders also feel happy. So let’s change
our thoughts that when we are obedient to God and walking in truth, not only it
makes God happy but also to our leaders and pastors of the church because,
pastors are given from God to feed His people in the church, Jeremiah 3:15, “And I
will give you shepherds according to My heart, who will feed you with knowledge
and understanding.” So, pastor who feeds the God’s people with God’s
knowledge and understanding will be happy when he/she knows, they are walking
in the truth.
