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We hope you enjoy this re-post from January 28, 2014. Be blessed! The Today’s Quote From God Team

Can two walk together, except they be agreed? – Amos 3:3, KJV

Enoch walked with God, Noah walked with God, Abraham walked with God, and so can we. To walk with God, all we have to do is do what these men did: we must agree with God that His way of life is better than ours, and we must set aside our manner of living in favor of His.

On the surface, this sounds pretty easy. In reality, it’s terribly hard. The reason it is terribly hard is that most of us refuse to totally and completely agree with God about one very important matter: sin.

For our relationship with God to reach the level of “walking” with Him, our relationship with God cannot be encumbered by sin. In order for our relationship to be unobstructed by sin, we must agree with God about our sin. In other words, we must agree with God about how serious our sin is, and we must agree with God that we should eradicate sin from our lives. When we do agree with God on these matters, He will forgive us our sin, and our relationship with Him will be free-flowing.

This is what 1 John 1:9 is all about. 1 John 1:9 (KJV) states:

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

The English word “confess” is, in the original Greek, a word that means “to assent, to covenant, to acknowledge.” “Assent” and “acknowledge” mean to “agree with.” “Covenant” means “to promise.” So in this one word “confess,” God is teaching us that He will forgive us our sins when we agree with Him about what sin is, when we agree with Him about how serious it is, and when we promise not to sin anymore. The latter – committing not to sin anymore – is what repentance is all about.

Granted, even though we may fully intend not to sin anymore, we will slip up and sin again. That is why God promises to forgive us every time we do slip up, so long as we confess. But most Christians fail to confess a number of sins because they don’t view their sinful behaviors as sinful. For example, do you think twice about telling a dirty joke, which is a violation of Philippians 4:8 (think pure thoughts only)? Do you watch filthy movies and television shows without giving it a second thought, which is a violation of Psalm 101:3 and Galatians 6:7 (set nothing wicked before your eyes, for that which you sow, you will reap)? Do you waste time at work Facebooking, checking personal email, shopping online, or talking to friends for long periods of time on the phone? If you do, you are violating commandment number eight of the Ten Commandments, “Thou shalt not steal.” You’re not being paid to play. You’re being paid to work. We commit such “little” transgressions daily, thinking nothing of them. But God calls such things “sin,” and until we agree with Him that such things are sin, we cannot walk with Him.

We have a casual attitude towards sin, but God doesn’t. Even those “little” sins we ignore are sins that infuriate God, and just one of them was (and is) horrific enough to send Jesus Christ to the cross so that we might escape Hell. As long as we disagree with God about how serious sin is, we will not be able to walk with Him. But if we indeed will confess our sins – if we will agree with Him about what sin is, about how serious it is, and about our need to repent of our sin – then we can have unencumbered fellowship with Him.

Would you say you are walking with God today? If you can’t, then the problem lies with you, not with Him. You have sin to confess, and once you agree with Him about that sin, then you can have unencumbered fellowship with your Creator.