IT IS GLORY JUST TO WALK WITH HIM

          Years ago when physically I was still able to walk, I loved to start the day by walking early in the morning.  Things were so quiet and peaceful at that hour and I used to spend the time while I walked talking to the Lord.  It was often just as if He were actually walking with me.  I often thought about what it might have been like to be a disciple and have walked physically with Him.  What would it have been like to be with the couple who walked with Him on the road to Emmaus? What a revealing remark they made about that experience. "They said to one another, 'Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?'" (Luke 24 32)..Wow!  Early on in the Bible "walking" with the Lord is used to describe one who lives according to the will of God, and lives in fellowship with Him, day by day. It is a life of consistent faith and obedience toward God. Obviously today we can't actually walk with Him physically   Instead, we walk by faith, not by sight (II Corinthians. 5:7). Through faith we are able to fellowship with the Lord, in His Word, and by prayer. "Whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory" (I Pet. 1:8).  It is glory just to walk with Him.  As the hymn writer wrote "It is joy divine to feel Him near where'er my path may be.... Thro' the vale and o'er the height ... when the shadows fall ...  when skies above are clear.... and when I walk with Him on heaven's golden shore.."  This text was written by Avis B. Christensen (1895-1985) who was encouraged by her grandmother to write poetry. She wrote her first poem at the age of ten. It is said that she actually wrote thousands of them during her lifetime. Then one Sunday morning in Moody Church she listened to a new song by Harry Loes.  The Lord reminded her that the talent entrusted to her belonged to Him.  Her immediate longing to express His love and blessing resulted in 19 gospel songs being written.  Throughout her life she must have experienced the glory of walking daily with the Lord.  She most likely knew how He would guide our steps aright.  And it must have been her hope and assurance that one day she would walk with Him on heaven's shore  She knew,  as David declared, "You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore" (Ps. 16:11)..  Are you walking daily with the Lord?  Are you experiencing His presence in your daily walk ... "through the vale and o'er the height" ?  If not, He is waiting for you to begin that walk.

1      It is glory just to walk with Him 

whose blood has ransomed me;

It is rapture for my soul each day.

It is joy divine to feel Him near 

where'er my path may be. 

Bless the Lord, it's glory all the way!

It is glory just to walk with Him.

It is glory just to walk with Him.

He will guide my steps aright,

Thro' the vale and o'er the height.

It is glory just to walk with Him.

2      It is glory when the shadows fall, 

to know that He is near.

Oh, what joy to simply trust and pray!

It is glory to abide in Him 

when skies above are clear.

Yes, with Him, it's glory all the way! 

t is glory just to walk with Him.

It is glory just to walk with Him.

He will guide my steps aright,

Thro' the vale and o'er the height.

It is glory just to walk with Him.

3      Twill be glory when I walk with Him 

on heaven's golden shore,

Never from His side again to stray.

Twill be glory, wondrous glory 

with the Savior evermore,

Everlasting glory all the way!

It is glory just to walk with Him.

It is glory just to walk with Him.

He will guide my steps aright,

Thro' the vale and o'er the height.

It is glory just to walk with Him.

Listen to it here.  IT IS GLORY