The Pilgrim Walk - A Heavenly Walk

The walk of the Pilgrim  - is a heavenly walk; it’s the way of holiness, the way of obedience to all God’s commands, even the difficult ones as well as the easy. The way to heaven is ascending. We must be content to travel up hill, though it may be hard and tiresome at times, and contrary to the natural bias of the flesh.

We are to follow in the steps that Christ travelled with all meekness and lowliness of heart, obedience and love.

Two Ways - Two Paths - Two Destinations

The Scriptures remind us in the Gospel of Matthew - "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life and only a few find it"

(Mat. 7:13)

This scripture remind us  - that there are only two pathways in life. The broad way which resembles a life in the worlds eyes. It is a life that is centered on self, fulfilling the desires of one’s heart, of ever seeking and yet never satisfied. Many seeking religion to fill that emptiness, of trying to find answers to life's problems but find only the drudgery of trying live according to a set of rules. Of trying to make oneself righteous in the sight of God.

Secondly the Scriptures -  also reveal to us that it is the narrow way  that leads to true spiritual life. It is the walk of the pilgrim. It shows us the way to enter into a relationship with our Heavenly Father and with our Savior the Lord Jesus Christ. We trade our weakness for His strength, to receive His life of joy and peace, and participate in His victory now and for all eternity.

Again the Scriptures remind us in Matthew’s Gospel – “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you” (Mat. 6:33).

 

The walk of a Pilgrim  - is a heavenly walk; it’s the way of holiness, the way of obedience to all God’s commands, even the difficult ones as well as the easy. The way to heaven is ascending. We must be content to travel up hill, though it may be hard and tiresome at times, and contrary to the natural bias of the flesh. We are to follow in the steps that Christ travelled with all meekness and lowliness of heart, obedience and love.

In our Pilgrim Walk we have a  heavenly guide - Jesus is our faithful Shepherd,  - and our sovereign King! Nothing is more important than knowing and following Him! But we could neither know nor follow Him until He touched our hearts, filled us with His Spirit, and opened our "eyes" -- enabling us to see both our own depravity and His undeserved grace in the revealing light of his holiness.

Through the cross, our wonderful Savior took the punishment for our sins and brought us into an intimate relationship with Himself that will last forever.  He says in the Gospel of John -

"I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." John 14:6

"No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him...."

 John 6:44

It is only when see ourselves as helpless and unable to approach God that begin to truly seek Him. It is then that we come under the conviction of sin and recognition of our own depravity and a willingness to come to Him and surrender our life into the hands of our sovereign Lord.

We should travel on the pilgrim way in a laborious manner – Long journeys are attended with toil and fatigue, especially when passing through a wilderness experience, we need strength to surmount the difficulties and obstacles that are in the way. The land we travel through is a wilderness.

The angel of the Lord commanded Elijah in the Old Testament to -

“Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.” So he arose, and ate and drank; and he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights as far as Horeb, the mountain of God. (1 Kings. 19. 4-8)

 The Pilgrim Walk is a Heavenly walk - So it is with the way of holiness we need spiritual food to sustain us on the journey, We ought to be continually growing in holiness, and in that respect coming nearer and nearer to heaven, becoming more and more like the inhabitants of heaven in respect of holiness and conformity to God, the knowledge of God and Christ, in clear views of the glory of God, the beauty of Christ, and the excellency of divine things, as we come nearer to the beatific vision.

We should labor to be continually growing in divine love — that this may be an increasing flame in our hearts, till they ascend wholly in this flame — in obedience and a heavenly conversation, that we may do the will of God on earth as the angels do in heaven, in comfort and spiritual joy, [and] in sensible communion with God and Jesus Christ. Our path should be as “the shining light, that shines more and more to the perfect day.” (Pro. 4:18)

We ought to be hungering and thirsting after righteousness: after an increase in righteousness. “As new-born babes, desire the sincere milk of the work, that ye may grow thereby.” (1 Pet. 2:2)

The perfection of heaven should be our mark. . “one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus

(Phil.3:13-14)NASB

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