As He Walked | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 3, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 21.

"As He Walked."

A CHRISTIAN is a follower of Christ, that is, one who lives according to the precept and example of Christ. Says the apostle John: "He that saith he abideth in him [Christ] ought himself also so to walk, even as he [Christ] walked." 1 John 2:6. Then how did Christ walk? He says: "I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love." And of him the psalmist wrote: "Then said I [Christ], Lo, I come; in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God; yea, thy law is within my heart." Ps. 40:7, 8; cf. Heb. 10:7-10.

Christ had the law in his heart, and if we have a part in the new covenant we shall have the law written in our hearts. "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant. . . . This shall be the covenant that I will make: . . . After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people." Jer. 31:33. And then when the work of writing the law in our hearts is fully accomplished, we shall be like Christ. Says the apostle—

"Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law; for sin is the transgression of the law. And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin." 1 John 3:2-5.

Truly we may say with Paul: "Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good." Rom. 7:12.