FRIDAY April 11th
I will complete the week with another devotion regarding our Christian Walk.
Genesis 5:22-24
‘Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah 300 years and had other sons and daughters. Thus all the days of Enoch were 365 years. Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.’
We will also read the verses concerning Enoch from Hebrews 11:5
‘By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God.’
Enoch walked with God. There is nowhere on planet earth that marks the spot where Enoch was buried, because he did not die, instead he was a man who walked with God and pleased God so much so that God took him from off the earth and into his presence. Now, I wonder how many of us like to read grave / tomb stones? I do, I like to see what has been put on them but imagine that on your gravestone or mine could be written ‘Haydn walked with God, he pleased God’.
And we can walk with God, and we can please God! It doesn’t mean that he will take us the same way that he took Enoch, unless of course it is via the rapture, but he longs to walk with us and to talk with us. God longs for us to live our lives in such a way that it pleases him.
Back in the beginning, we read that before Adam and Eve sinned, that God used to come to them in the cool of the evening, it says in Genesis 3:8 that ‘they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day’, imagine it, meeting up with God and walking and talking with him! Well, Christ has reversed for us the curse of sin, he has quickened us and made us alive again, and part of the package (if you will excuse me putting it this way) is that we have been reconciled to God, and we can walk with him, we can talk with him, we can be in fellowship with him. And we need to walk the walk and talk the talk in such a way that we give not only glory to God but that the way we live our lives also gives him great pleasure.
Remember Enoch was no different to us, he had a family, he would have gone about his daily business, but he did it all in such a way that God was pleased with him.