“Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.” Hebrews 10:22
We can be assured that as Christians God is always near to
us. God promised us He would never leave us, nor would He ever forsake us. “…for he hath
said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.” Hebrews 13:5. But the
question is, “are we close to God”, for us to be truly close to God we must
walk with God and in Christ. “But if we walk in the light, as he is in
the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus
Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.” 1 John 1:7 However, we must
realize also walking in light is refusing to walk in darkness, because there is
no walking near God if we are walking in darkness. “If we say that we have
fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:”
1 John 1:6 walking in darkness is walking outside of the scriptures. Jesus
Christ always pleased God because He always walked in the Will of God never
walking in his own will. “For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own
will, but the will of him that sent me.” John 6:38 Jesus knew that the only
way to please God the Father is to do His Will, no matter what. Paul wrote in Romans
15:3 “For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The
reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.” In Hebrews we learn of
two things we need to draw close to God, and to walk in fellowship with Him, “…with
a true heart in full assurance of faith…” These two terms “a true
heart” and “in full assurance of faith…” defines what is meant by
walking in the light. If we are not in the light of His word, then we are
walking in darkness. The problem so many have is they do not understand what
God means by walking in the light. A true heart means, as defined by Vincent’s
Word Study says, “the phrase means more than in sincerity. Sincerity is
included, but with it all that enters into a right attitude toward God.”
Understanding that God is our Father, and He has rules and laws that are
non-negotiable by our thoughts, beliefs, understandings, or how we were
brought-up. God’s word does not have to fit your way of thinking, but our way
of thinking must fit into God’s word. This is exactly what Jesus said as
the Son of man, I came to do His will and not my own. Then the Lord’s second
commandment is “in full assurance of faith…” this means, - entire confidence in God –
faith is believing God, not just believing in Him, but believing His written
word without hesitation or denying seeing it because you somehow disagree with
it and have made yourself blind to it. James wrote these words, “But let
him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of
the sea driven with the wind and tossed.” James 1:6 The word “wavering”
means - to separate
thoroughly, that is, to withdraw from, or (by implication) oppose; figuratively
to discriminate – at God or His word. There are no excuses as to not
believing and walking in the truth. Even if our own heart causes us to fail in
our faithfulness to God’s word it is not an excuse. So, while a lot of
people separate themselves from the Truth of God’s Word, they call themselves
walking in bold fellowship with God. However, they are not walking in the light
of God’s word. For example, is not attending church satisfactory to God? “Not forsaking the assembling of
ourselves together…” Heb
10:25 It is not obeying the scriptures if God has saved your soul and
you have not been baptized and are a member of one of the Lord’s church’s.
There is no excuse! Do you bring unity to the church, do you edify (build-up)
other church members or tear them down. “For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and
approved of men. Let us therefore follow after the things which
make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.” Romans 14:18 A Christian never talks
bad of another Christian; this is division not unity. It doesn’t matter what
you think! Do you fear God, I mean do you Reverence God? Do you truly care if
you are breaking His commandments? Are you looking at what your life is, and if
it truly blesses God. Do not “just assume” you are pleasing God and walking in
fellowship. Look at your life in the mirror of God’s word, listen to the
scriptures, and do as God preaches. “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the
Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the
Spirit of the Lord.”
2 Corinthians 3:18 Ask
yourself this question, AM I PLEASEING GOD, REALLY PLEASING GOD? And if not
then correct what you are doing wrong and you will have a very sweet fellowship
with God the Father and Jesus His Beloved Son, as a Son. “For thou hast delivered my soul from death:
wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the
light of the living?” Psalms 56:13
