Week 3 Reflection
From the very beginning of Scripture, we see God’s desire to walk with His people. In Genesis, He walked with Adam and Eve in the cool of the garden. In Micah, He called His people to walk humbly with Him. And in Luke 24, we see the risen Christ draw near to two discouraged disciples on the road to Emmaus.
The thread that ties these moments together is this: the God of creation doesn’t just want our belief, our sacrifices, or our rituals—He wants our presence. He wants to walk with us.
Walking is a beautiful image for the life of faith. It’s not hurried. It’s not about performance or impressing God with how fast we can run. Walking is steady. It’s about presence, pace, and conversation. God doesn’t call us to sprint ahead of Him or to lag behind in fear; He calls us to walk in step with Him.
But walking with God also involves obedience. Micah 6:8 reminds us that God’s heart is not for empty sacrifices but for lives shaped by justice, mercy, and humility. Discipleship is not always flashy—it’s about small, faithful, everyday steps that align us with the heart of God. Eugene Peterson said it best: “Discipleship is a long obedience in the same direction.”
And then we arrive at the Emmaus story. Two disciples are walking away from Jerusalem, discouraged and confused. They had followed Jesus for years, but now they were walking away in disappointment. And yet—it’s on that road, in their discouragement, that Jesus Himself draws near. They don’t recognize Him at first, but He listens, He teaches, and He walks with them. Later, when He breaks bread, their eyes are opened.
What strikes me is this: even though they had walked with Jesus before, they didn’t recognize Him in His resurrected glory. Sometimes that’s true for us too—we don’t always recognize Jesus when He shows up in the ordinary steps of our day. But He is walking with us, opening our eyes to see Him in new ways.
John, who saw so much of Jesus’ life, death, resurrection, and miracles, later wrote these words: “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth” (3 John 4). Think about that—his greatest joy wasn’t seeing miracles or even seeing the risen Christ with his own eyes. His greatest joy was knowing that others were walking faithfully with Jesus. That’s the call for us: not only to walk with Jesus ourselves but to walk with others, helping them see Him and follow Him too.
Reflection Questions:
- Where in your life right now do you sense God inviting you to slow down and walk with Him rather than rush ahead?
- In what small, everyday choices can you practice obedience to God—justice, kindness, humility—this week?
- Like the disciples on the road to Emmaus, where might you be discouraged or blind to Jesus’ presence? How might He already be walking with you in that place?
- Who is your “one more”—the person God may be calling you to walk alongside, to encourage, and to lead closer to Jesus?