Walk With Your Head Held High!

“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians; I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk with heads held high.” – Leviticus 26:13 NIV

Other versions use ‘upright, walking freely, walking proudly again’. All these are describing how the Israelites were to carry themselves after God had delivered them from slavery to the Egyptians. Similarly, we’re also no longer slaves to sin and to the kingdom of darkness but we have been translated into the Kingdom of His dear Son so we ought to walk with our heads held high.

In conformity to our old nature, we had to walk in fear, shame, anxiety, and hopelessness. That was what our slave master wanted for us and that’s the normal way we thought we could live life. The Israelites lived in slavery for so long that they thought that was the normal way of life. This was so engraved in them that on their way to the promised land, they were desiring to return back to Egypt and slavery.

The light appeared to men but men rejected light and still chose darkness. “If the light within you is darkness, how great is the darkness!” God has brought light in the midst of our darkness and deliverance in the height of our slavery. Jesus has brought us Salvation and as part of the package is the adjustment of our lives to fit this new life, thus, walking with our heads held high!

The story of the prodigal son makes us know that the life of an outcast is different from the life of the slave and also different from the life of the son. The life of the son is the greatest among all. As sons and daughters of the most high, we must live as such.

We must live devoid of fear, shame, anxiety, hopelessness, and sin. We ought to live a life of power, righteousness, hope, faith, peace, and joy among others. That is the life that God has called to.
We are supposed to walk with the consciousness of who we are in Christ.

There are many promises of God that affords this lifestyle and we know that in Christ, all the many blessings of God are yes and Amen. Has he said it? He will do it. Has He promised? He will fulfill it. That’s how we are supposed to live. We’re to live in the consciousness that He who lives in us is greater than that which is in the world.

As God commanded Joshua, so are we also commanded to not allow the Word of God depart from our mouth by meditating on it day and night and seeing to do as it’s written that our way may be prosperous and successful. The only way there can be a change in behavior, after we have lived our life in the old nature, is by constantly feeding on God’s Word and resisting every contrary word.

Walk in this consciousness of who you are in Christ.
Walk in this consciousness of what God has done for you.
Walk in this consciousness of God’s plan for you.
Walk with Your Heads Held High!

Further reading: Rom. 6:6-7,18, Matt. 6:22-23, 2Cor. 1:20, 1John 4:4, Jos. 1:8