A Healer’s Geste

Does It Matter?

What?

Does what matter?

Oh, I don’t know, anything, everything: all my little daily comings and goings and doings.

I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called — Ephesians 4:1

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. [...] but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord. [...] Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise — Ephesians 5:1, 8-10, 15

Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy. 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires. — Romans 8:13-14

for we walk by faith, not by sight. [...] we make it our aim to please him. — 2 Corinthians 5:7, 9

Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ — Philippians 1:27

Only let us hold true to what we have attained. Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us. — Philippians 3:16-17

so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. — Colossians 1:10

Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! — 2 Peter 3:11-12

By this we may know that we are in him: whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked. — 1 John 2:5-6

I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as we were commanded by the Father. — 2 John 4

we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory. — 1 Thessalonians 2:12

Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more. [...] For this is the will of God, your sanctification [...] so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one. — 1 Thessalonians 4:1, 3, 12

The end of the matter: yes.

The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil. — Ecclesiastes 12:13