Camina, Pueblo del Dios

“Walk on, O people of God; 

Walk on, O people of God!

A new law, God’s new alliance,

All creation is reborn.”

—Chorus of Camina, Pueblo de Dios

This rich-in-imagery Easter song is in our current United Methodist hymnal.

Its chorus picks up on the New Testament way of speaking of our daily lives as our “walk,” reminding us that our daily lives are different since we are Easter people.

Verse 1 makes clear that this is possible because of what God has done.  The English translation puts it this way:

“Look on Calvary’s summit, on the rock there towers a cross;

death that gives birth to new living, a new people, a new light.

Christ has brought us salvation with his death and rising again.

Everything comes to new birthing, all creation is reborn.”

As Christ followers we already participate in this “new birthing” to “new life”  and our primary identity is that we are “people of God.”

Let’s help each other remember that today as we “walk on.”