What It Is to Walk with God?

First of all, I think I may safely say that for some of us that question needs no answer. God Himself has answered it to us in blessed, unspeakably blessed, experience. But for others of us--yes, many of us--it does need an answer. This question receives a very plain and simple answer:

To walk with God means to live one’s life in the consciousness of God’s presence and in conscious communion with Him, to have the thought constantly before us, “God is beside me,” and every now and then to be speaking to Him, and, still more, listening for Him to speak to us.
First of all, I think I may safely say that for some of us that question needs no answer. God Himself has answered it to us in blessed, unspeakably blessed, experience. But for others of us--yes, many of us--it does need an answer. This question receives a very plain and simple answer:


In a word, to walk with God is to live in the real, constant, conscious companionship of God. https://josephifeanyiblog..com/2019/07/four-results-of-walking-with-god.html

Yet, scholarship, which I'd presume to mean learning, which is what dispels ignorance, and about God, is what seems to be promoted here.

How would you reconcile the two op? Can one be ignorant and Walk with God?