Life of faith

Life seen as travelling with God

Walking with God

Genesis 17:1 KJV 1900

And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.

See also Ge 5:22; Ge 5:24; Ge 6:9; Ge 48:15; Ps 56:13; Ps 89:15; Mic 4:5; Zec 10:12

Journeying from the old to the new

Isaiah 43:19 KJV 1900

Behold, I will do a new thing; Now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, And rivers in the desert.

See also Ex 18:8; Is 40:3–5; Mic 2:13

God’s guidance along the way

Exodus 13:21 KJV 1900

And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:

See also Ex 23:20; Dt 1:32–33; Dt 8:2; Ne 9:12; Ne 9:19; Ps 25:9; Je 2:17; Ga 5:25

God’s ways

Walking in God’s way

Is 35:8; 1 Jn 2:6

See also Ge 18:19; Ex 18:20; Dt 10:12–13; Dt 13:5; Dt 28:9; Jos 22:5; Job 23:10–12; Ps 1:1–2; Ps 18:30; 2 Ti 3:10

Christ is not one of many ways to approach God, nor is He the best of several ways; He is the only way. “/ am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” To believe otherwise is to be something less than a Christian.7

A. W. Tozer

God teaches believers his way

Isaiah 48:17 KJV 1900

Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, Which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.

See also 1 Sa 12:23; 1 Ki 8:35–36; Ps 25:8–9; Ps 25:12; Ps 86:11; Ps 119:30; Pr 6:23; Is 2:3; Is 30:20–21

Characteristics of the way of life include holiness, obedience, trust, humility, joy and peace:

Ps 16:11; Ps 23:2; Pr 8:20; Je 6:16; Mic 6:8; Ga 5:22–23

Sinners refuse to follow God’s way

Isaiah 53:6 KJV 1900

All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned every one to his own way; And the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

See also Is 56:11; Ac 14:16; 2 Pe 2:15

All other routes end in death

Proverbs 14:12 KJV 1900

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, But the end thereof are the ways of death.

See also Dt 11:28; Dt 31:29; Jdg 2:17; 2 Ki 21:22; Ps 1:6; Pr 15:10; Pr 16:25

Those who travel God’s way are blessed

Proverbs 4:18 KJV 1900

But the path of the just is as the shining light, That shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

See also Dt 5:33; 1 Ki 8:23; Pr 11:5; Is 26:7–8; Mt 5:3–12

Jesus Christ is the way to life

Jn 14:6; Col 2:3

See also Jn 8:12; Heb 12:2

“the Way” was an early designation of Christianity, suggestive of the content of the church’s message that Jesus Christ is the way to life:

Ac 9:2; Ac 19:9; Ac 19:23; Ac 22:4; Ac 24:14; Ac 24:22

Entrance to the way to life

Entrance is restricted

Matthew 7:13–14 KJV 1900

Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

See also Jn 10:9; Jn 14:6

Entrance is by faith

Hebrews 11:8–10 KJV 1900

By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

See also Jn 3:15–16; 2 Co 5:7; Heb 11:6; Heb 11:13–16

Acts 2:38–39 KJV 1900

Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.