Walking

I have been dwelling in the Psalms and Proverbs a lot lately. What a multitude of good advice, wisdom and direction is to be found in these books. One of the verses I especially like is:

Psalm 85:13
Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.
Amplified Bible: Righteousness shall go before Him and shall make His footsteps a way in which to walk.

Jesus Christ has made us righteous so that we can fellowship with Him and our Heavenly Father and have an intimate relationship with the Holy Spirit and our Father and Jesus. I was thinking last night about what Jesus has done for us. What a love God must have for us! He laid down His life so that we could once again be part of Him, be able to come into His Presence without any possibility of being destroyed by His power. What a privilege! What an honor!

We have been made righteous, right with the Almighty God, which gives us the right to be in the throne room and call Him Papa. Righteousness makes us totally new people, new creations as the Bible calls us. We are different people than we were before we accepted Jesus as our Savior, before we accepted all that He has done for us. He went before us and made the way. All we have to do is walk in the way of His righteous footsteps. Righteousness preceded Him. We follow Him. We can’t go wrong when we are walking in the print or pattern that His footsteps have left.

Once again, in this life we can walk in Jesus’ footsteps. He has set us in place. What we have to do is choose to walk in those footsteps. You know, we can choose a different direction. How many people do you know who have walked in the wrong direction? But we choose the right direction, the one that righteousness Himself has placed us in.

We walk in the righteous footsteps of Jesus!