Sitting, Walking and Standing

The Wycliffe Bible Commentary on Ephesians notes that “the contents of the epistle can be summarized by the three words sitting, walking and standing. By position, the believer is seated with Christ in the heavenlies (2:6); his responsibility is to walk worthy of the calling wherewith he has been called (4:1); and this walk is further seen as a warfare in which he is engaged against Satan and all his hosts and in which he is exhorted to stand against the wiles of the devil (6:11).”

As I read this it reminded me of a converse statement made in Psalm 1: “How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the path if sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers! But his delight is in the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night.”

Those of us who are in Christ do not sit in the seat of scoffers; rather we have been saved by grace and are therefore seated with Christ in the heavenly places. We do not walk in the counsel of the wicked, rather we walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which we have been called. We do not stand in the path of sinners, rather wear the full armor of God, so that we may be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil.