"Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once."
A verse that we must look at. It's truth is so revealing about this thing call life and the eternal weight of our daily living. Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved - the act of walking is a continued motion; To stand, sit or fall means that you are no longer walking. The very act of salvation means that you begin to walk with the Lord. The fact that it is compared to physical birth is good for us to note. A baby is born; it comes forth from its mother and begins to live and breath. Salvation is a one time event as well, we come forth from the world and ourselves and begin to breath in Him. But if a baby after it is born stops breathing, life ceases to be. It is a continual process of growing, learning, matruing and experiencing life. The Christian is born again, then life begins in Christ and with Christ. 'Old things are past away and behold, all things become new.' The one that shall be saved is the one that continues to walk uprightly. Once a so called Christian ceases to walk uprightly, we should be aware of what happens then. One, God will punish them to bring them back.
Two, they were never saved and will return to the ways of the world. Three, they will continue to fight against God and lose more and more of what God intended for them. But, I believe, that if they are truly saved God will bring them back before they die. How else shall God be able to say to the soul that is saved, 'Well done'? And if you are reading this and say, 'I am a Christian'. Then are you walking uprightly? Any doubt, any uncertainty shoudl provoke you to repent and restore the relationship with Christ which you have broken. He has not broken it, it is always on our part. And what does it mean to walk uprightly? WE know that it is not about the posture of our backs. It is about the actions, the words, the intentions that we do day by day and moment by moment. In daily purusits, in long term decisions, in the raising of children, in how we treat others, in how we spend our time, our money, our talents (abilities), and how we spend our time with God. It is more and more evident to me, that if a child of God woudl walk uprightly, then they must become more and more like God, like Christ. And if this be true, then we must learn more an dmore of Him. How do we do this? One, we read of Who He was and what He did in the Gospels. In the Bible, is the clearest of instructions for what it is to walk uprightly. Spelled out on those pages is found the teachings for us. To neglect the Bible, means you lose out on such knowledge of what it is to walk uprightly. Many a Christians fall, sitting and standing can be traced to lack of Bible time.
Secondly, we learn more of Christ by being with Him daily. If you are not with God daily, then you are with someone else that will not help you walk uprightly. Only God can teach you these things. Men always fail. 'Looking unto Jesus' is the source of our daily learning. Being with Him, apart from Bible reading and study, is in prayer, meditation and being still. 'Be still and know that I am God'. He reveals Himself to the soul that is before Him to learn and grow and walk uprightly. He teaches us more and more of Himself. Just as naturally, as one can learn about someone else by being with them, so the truth is found in being alone with God. He shows us Who He is when we are with Him. and in these two ways we learn what it is to walk uprightly.
Now upon a lifetime spent in this pursuit, at the end of the way, we meet God. And there He pronounces what we already know with certianty, "I am His, and He is mine.' If the soul doesn't know then something is not right between the two. The soul that walketh uprightly shall be saved. Salvation happened along time ago in their earthly life. Now they are saved from the flesh, that is corrupt, the world that is polluted and translated into a new body and into a new place. The saving from sin has already happened upon their confession and profession of Christ as their all. Being saved from eternity in hell is now complete as they are delivered into the haven of rest.
But he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once - word study, way; as the first part is true, so here is the alternative; If one will not walk uprightly, and live rightly, then they chose to be wicked and evil. Their destruction is set.
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