Follow In Jesus' Steps By Walking in the Spirit!

One blog post on http://www.perfectpeaceplan.com/post/celebrate-recovery-exposed/, I found the following entry:

Whose steps are you following? Pick one!
a) Wilson and Smith
b) Baker and Warren
c) Jesus: To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in HIS STEPS. 1Pe 2:21
Everyone has a choice. Now is a good time to make the right one.

Inevitably, everyone of us in the Body of Christ cannot help but go further by resting in the Finished Work of our savior Jesus Christ.

Indeed, we are called to follow in His steps:

"For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:" (1 Peter 2: 21)

Then Peter explains what that means:

"Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:

"Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:

"Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

"For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls." (1 Peter 2: 22-25)

We are not called to bear our own bodies on the Cross, we are called to commit ourselves to Him who judges righteously, for in Christ we have been made the righteousness of God in Christ (2 Corinthians 5: 21).

How did Jesus live on the earth, anyway? By the power of the Holy Spirit!:

"Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. " (Matthew 4: 1)

and

"Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise." (John 5: 19)

It's a life of dependence, which we receive through the Holy Spirit:

"This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

"For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

"But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law." (Galatians 5: 16-18)

We do not need twelves steps -- let us step into the life that God so freely gives us through His Son, and by His Spirit we are guided into the steps and the works that He wants us to walk in (Ephesians 2: 10)!