{"id":251,"date":"2015-04-04T12:05:25","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T12:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/2015\/04\/04\/walking-with-jesus\/"},"modified":"2015-04-04T12:05:25","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T12:05:25","slug":"walking-with-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/2015\/04\/04\/walking-with-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking With Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well I am trying to at least. Today is day two of my long<br \/>\njourney to the west coast, part II. Our life in Georgia is over as a resident,<br \/>\nfor the time being, and we are starting afresh in a new land. As I reflect back<br \/>\non my life I notice one thing when I am walking with Jesus things tend to be<br \/>\nsmoother, not \u201ceasy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>If you have lived anything more than a year you know that<br \/>\nthere is no such thing as an \u201ceasy\u201d life and as a Christian we know \u201csmooth\u201d<br \/>\ncan be quite ugly at times. So please if you are \u201cnew\u201d to the faith don\u2019t think<br \/>\nknowing Jesus will suddenly end all your troubles. Knowing and walking with<br \/>\nJesus just gives clarity on things, why prayers are answered and why they are<br \/>\nnot.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=1%20John%201%3A7&amp;version=NIV;VOICE;ESV;KJV\" target=\"_blank\">1 John 1:7<\/a><\/b> talks about our walk:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Genuine Christians walk habitually<br \/>\nin the light (truth and holiness) not in darkness (falsehood and sin). Their<br \/>\nwalk also results in cleansing from sin as the Lord continually forgives his<br \/>\nown. Since those walking in the light share in the character of God, they will<br \/>\nbe habitually characterized by HIS holiness, indicating their true fellowship<br \/>\nwith him. A genuine Christian does not walk in darkness but only in the light,<br \/>\nand cleansing from sin continually occurs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Let this sink in and really ponder. First take from this is<br \/>\nwalking with God has a \u201ccontinuous\u201d cleansing of sin, meaning we are always<br \/>\nsinning. We can become legalistic nuts, but honestly when an attractive lady<br \/>\nwalks by I tend to get distracted. When I let it go, the thoughts drift away<br \/>\nfrom holiness God expects. <\/p>\n<p>It never once says that our life will be easy, but rather<br \/>\nonly that we will not let darkness overtake us when we sin. Also, we will not<br \/>\nlet life eat us up when things go south, which they will. God does not control free<br \/>\nwill and unfortunately the free will of other men can destroy your life even<br \/>\nwhen you are walking with God closely. God did not set up this planet so He<br \/>\ncould be the puppet master and control everything. Heck the joy He has is<br \/>\nwatching the successes that happen when we follow His path diligently. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway I am getting ready to head out and am enjoying the<br \/>\nquite time with God, so far we have talked, we have sung, we have laughed and<br \/>\nwe have cried. I must look like a crazy guy to others!! But I have decided to<br \/>\nput aside the radio for most of the trip and just ponder life and see what<br \/>\ncomes up in my head to help live right with God.<\/p>\n<p>The key to walking with God is to walk diligently and daily.<br \/>\nWhen you stumble, know it will happen, so just get back up confess your sins<br \/>\nand return to His holiness. We just need to do it and do it daily no matter<br \/>\nwhat comes up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well I am trying to at least. Today is day two of my long journey to the west coast, part II. Our life in Georgia is over as a resident, for the time being, and we are starting afresh in a new land. As I reflect back on my life I notice one thing when &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/2015\/04\/04\/walking-with-jesus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Walking With Jesus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[139],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}