When the apostle Paul calls on believers to 'walk worthy of God' (e.g., 1 Thess. 1:12) the meaning can't be, "live in such a way that you deserve and earn God's blessing" for Paul makes it very clear that such a life is an impossibility for us sinners, and that our only hope is undeserved grace.
What then must he mean? I think walking worthy of God means to live in a way that corresponds to and is commensurate with who God is, what he calls us to ("his own kingdom and glory") -- there is a way of living and choosing and valuing and dreaming and doing that is 'fitting' with such a calling; any other way of living is just to shallow and too shabby. It just doesn't match the majesty and the mercy of the God with whom we have to do.
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