Come and walk with me

Here's something which I saw and hear clearly from the Lord as I was eating yesterday=)I hope you'll see and catch what He showed me. The message can get a little long...but I'll try to just write the ones that speaks to me and leave a few scriptures for you to feed on.

I saw an orchard with just one path ahead of me. I was at the side, standing alongside the trees.

Here's what he say. "Walk before me in this path. I never ask you to turn away from your ways, but just to walk with me through this path. And as you walk with me, the things which seems hard for you to turn away from or that has held you back becomes easy for you to let go"

After that he told me to look up the verses on "walk before" in e-sword. I also look up if there are verses that in Jesus own words ask us to walk or turn away from our ways.And surprisingly i found none!I may be wrong in this.maybe there's a few I know not of. How carefully the Lord chooses His Word.But if ever the word turn away was used, it usually describe the people turning away from His way. But you'll be amazed at the number of times Jesus ask us to walk before Him or in His ways.More than hundred of them. Then as I was finding it, I notice it's only in human words that ask us to walk away from something. But Jesus ask us to follow him and we'll effortlessly walk away from our way.

You and I know that it's hard to throw away a habit or to turn away from our old ways. But Jesus has given us the answer.

He continued on with this illustration. There's many trees in the orchard that you need to mend. Those trees are like your cares and worries. You have so many cares. After you finish mending one, you have the next tree to take care of. Come and walk with me(picture yourself walking towards Jesus in that one path leaving all your cares behind)and smell the flowers. Do you sense your burden liften up?=)

I love the illustration that Jesus use for the word walk in the story of Peter walking on water.

Matthew 14: 29 So He said, "Come." And when Peter had come down out of the boat, he walked on the water to go to Jesus.

How careful Jesus chooses his words. How did Peter walk above the winds and storms? He literally walk and set his sight to go to Jesus.

The first time Jesus mention"walk before me" in the Bible is found in Gen 17:1, when He was speaking to Abraham about living a holy life.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless.

Here are a few of my favourite verses on walk:

Psalms 116

8 For You have delivered my soul from death,

My eyes from tears,

And my feet from falling.

⁹I will walk before the LORD

In the land of the living.

Genesis 24: 40 But he said to me, "The LORD, before whom I walk, will send His angel with you and prosper your way; and you shall take a wife for my son from my family and from my father's house.

Some nice verses to ponder on=)

Gen 13:17, Eph 5:15, Ps 86:11, 89:15, 116:9, 119:1,3, Hab 3:19, isaiah 35:9, Jeremiah 7:23