“Enoch walked with God” (Genesis 5:24)
Dear friends,
What a wonderful picture: Enoch walking with God! Amos 3:3 poses the question, “Do two walk together unless they have agreed to do so?” Such sweet agreement and common purpose there must have been between Enoch and God, and between God and Enoch.
Noah also “walked with God” (Gen 6:9) and of Abraham it is said that he walked before God (Gen 17:1). All three were men of faith and consequently of obedience; and that is the implication of walking with God. Indeed, Micah 6:8 points out that what the Lord requires of us (i.e. obedience) includes “walk(ing) humbly with your God”.
But how can we walk with God? Do we not so often part company as we wander down a by-path? Couldn’t we just leave it to the spiritual ‘experts’? After all Enoch clocked up some 300 years’ experience of walking with God. But notice what happened to Enoch: “…then he was no more, because God took him away”. Does that not foreshadow our Saviour, Jesus Christ? He walked with his Father in total and utter obedience. That walk took him to the cross, and through death to resurrection and ascension, returning to his Father’s side – mission accomplished! God ‘took him away’ and then sent the Holy Spirit to come alongside, and indwell, his people empowering them to ‘walk with God’ until, one day, we too will go to the Father!
Because Jesus ‘walked with God’ all who are ‘in Christ’ can do so, too. “God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus” (Eph 2:6). As with Enoch, so with us, it is possible to walk with God. But as with Enoch, so with us, it is not by our merit or by God’s free grace.
May he richly bless you as you continue in your walk with him wherever that walk may lead, because ultimately it leads us home to his Father and ours.
In Christ,
