morning and evening, today

I have wanted to get Charles Spurgeon's Morning and Evening devotional for a long time now, but, as these things go, I forget or the timing doesn't work out with remembering and having the resources to get it. No matter, Biblegateway.com has heard my dilemma. I recently been using Biblegateway a lot for my Bible Study Fellowship homework. It has a gzillion translations of the Bible in various languages. Mostly, I use it to look up verses. BSF uses NIV version, so I use that when it refers to verses since the language can differ from the version I now use, ESV. Anyway, last night I was checking out the devotionals that they have before I went to bed and I was so happy when I found that they had Morning and Eveing. What a gift! Please check it out to refresh your time with the Lord.

Here is this morning's devotional:

"So walk ye in him."
Colossians 2:6

If we have received Christ himself in our inmost hearts, our new life will manifest its intimate acquaintance with him by a walk of faith in him. Walking implies action. Our religion is not to be confined to our closet; we must carry out into practical effect that which we believe. If a man walks in Christ, then he so acts as Christ would act; for Christ being in him, his hope, his love, his joy, his life, he is the reflex of the image of Jesus; and men say of that man, "He is like his Master; he lives like Jesus Christ." Walking signifies progress. "So walk ye in him"; proceed from grace to grace, run forward until you reach the uttermost degree of knowledge that a man can attain concerning our Beloved. Walking implies continuance. There must be a perpetual abiding in Christ. How many Christians think that in the morning and evening they ought to come into the company of Jesus, and may then give their hearts to the world all the day: but this is poor living; we should always be with him, treading in his steps and doing his will. Walking also implies habit. When we speak of a man's walk and conversation, we mean his habits, the constant tenor of his life. Now, if we sometimes enjoy Christ, and then forget him; sometimes call him ours, and anon lose our hold, that is not a habit; we do not walk in him. We must keep to him, cling to him, never let him go, but live and have our being in him. "As ye have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him"; persevere in the same way in which ye have begun, and, as at the first Christ Jesus was the trust of your faith, the source of your life, the principle of your action, and the joy of your spirit, so let him be the same till life's end; the same when you walk through the valley of the shadow of death, and enter into the joy and the rest which remain for the people of God. O Holy Spirit, enable us to obey this heavenly precept.

Lord, please show me where in my life I am not acting in faith. Help me to remember the habitual and continuing aspects of walking in faith and how progress comes with those. Thank you, Jesus, that we do not walk alone, but that even the power to take one step forward is given to us by you, through your sweet grace. Amen.