Walk with God

"Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him." -Genesis 5.24

Genesis 5 is one of those lists of genealogy many people probably skim (if they don't skip it entirely). We have so and so, who lived this many years, and became the father of so and so. Then they lived this long and had other children, and all the days of their life was this many, and then they died. And then we come to Enoch.

"Enoch lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Methuselah. Then Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he became the father of Methuselah, and he had other sons and daughters. So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him."

Here we are told the Enoch walked with God. Not that he lived, but walked with God. What if our lives were described like that, not that we lived, but that we walked with God? What if we enjoyed such fellowship, and such intimacy with the Father, that the only way describe our lives was that we walked with God? What would a life like that look like?

We see that it doesn't tell us that Enoch died, but that God took him. God brought Enoch into His presence. His life was unique, the end of it was no different. He no longer walked on earth, but now in the very presence of God. His earthly relationship with God became his heavenly relationship with God. Intimate became more intimate, personal became more personal.

Would we be like Enoch? Would we walk with God?

"Iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another."

To God alone be the Glory!

Strength and Honor