Walking without a partner is like walking a team of horses individually instead of together. Take a military force and everyone marching to a different drummer not all well land up together in one accord in a march. Israel had sinned and was going in exile. Yet Israel at one time had been blessed by the Lord. Israel walked with God until they began to go in separate directions. Idols of other countries began to liter their country. It all began when Solomon began to marry women of other lands and did not force them to worship His God, or did he marry them that agree with his faith, but chose wives that would eventually lead him to his own whoredom against God. Idolatry will take you further then you want to go. God is able to keep you heart from whoredom if you will do two things walk in his ways and trust in Jesus.

A person can not walk with God if he knows not God’s ways? Relationships do not start with everyone in perfect step with each other. Military trains people to walk in step with each other. The other day I was watching exercise class online and this women was out of step with her class. Yet the aerobic dance continue without a problem other then that one person being out of sink of the rest. To have a relationship with God requires us to get intuned to his walk. To get intuned with Christ walk. To get intuned by reading of God’s word to know him. We can walk by the Spirit of God without picking up our Bibles, but without direction from God himself you soon will be out of tune with him. Without talking to the one you are suppose to be instep with it is leading a blind person without being connect to a walking stick, another person or knowledge of their surroundings.. The blind person will be directly off course without some direction. A team of horse without proper gear to connect them will soon be walking in opposite direction. If we want to walk with God we need to be saved by his salvation plan. We need to know the power of God’s word. To know the value of following God’s word so we will not stray from it.

Israel had strayed, but Israel would not repent so God was giving them the ruler of their heart. The ruler that followed the desires of his heart as well as well as a ruler who bowed to idols. We can not bow to idols, we can only walk in the footsteps of Jesus. God called us to follow His Son. To follow His Son whether present in the flesh or present by the Spirit of the Word of God of prophesy. If you are going to walk hand and hand with Jesus you need to put on your salvation boots first and allow the lamp light of God direct your footsteps. It is not to late to begin to follow in Christ footsteps. Yet the older you get the harder it will be to get intuned to the word of God. Read your Bible daily to grow in Christ. To know what God’s word actually says. To know the value of that relationship by His Spirit is about.

Dear Heavenly Father teach us to following the footsteps of Jesus despite the world around us not always following the ways of Christ. In Jesus precious name, Amen.