WALK IN HIM
“As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him: rooted and built up in Him, and established in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.” (Colossians 2:6, 7). As I think about it today, it wasn’t all that difficult to receive Christ as my Savior. I had been brought to a point in my life where I knew I’d messed up and couldn’t fix things or go back and change the choices I had already made that had brought me down the road that I was on. I needed help, and more than that, I needed forgiveness. I didn’t need a theologian to tell me I’d offended my Creator. What little I knew about God was enough to tell me I’d blown it. That’s when someone found me and told me about Jesus. I was amazed to hear that my past could be forgiven, and that I could have a clean slate to write my life on. It wasn’t difficult – I simply believed it. As a gift from heaven, I just accepted it and discovered the joy of salvation and the gift of gra