Walking With God
- By James Thornton
- Published 12/18/2010
WALKING
WITH GOD:
Enoch walked
with God every day, one day at a time, 365 days a year, for 300 years.
Genesis
5:22. “And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred
years, and begat sons and daughters: 23. And all the days of Enoch were three
hundred sixty and five years: 24. And Enoch walked with God: and he was
not; for God took him.”
After the
birth of his first son, Methuselah, Enoch made the choice of walking with God.
Maybe Enoch felt the awful responsibility of raising children (he also had
other sons and daughters) in the midst of a corrupt world, so he shared his
burden with God by a daily walk with Him.
He had
received the “baton” of faith from his father, Jared, and took seriously his
duty of parenting in order to pass “the faith” on to the next generation, a
lesson that every parent needs to follow. When your children see your daily
walk with God it will become a permanent lesson for them.
In order to walk with someone there are two basic rules to
follow when you walk or you cannot walk together. One is that each must walk at the same pace. The other, each must walk in the same direction. The same two rules apply
when walking with God.
To walk with
God Enoch had to walk at the same pace; this meant a moment by moment obedience
to God’s Word. Disobedience, neglect, or ignorance of God’s Word would cause
him to get out of step. And he had to walk in the same direction God was
walking, which would mean a moment by moment surrender to God’s will.
Enoch couldn’t
go off in a direction of his own. He had to stop insisting on his own way, or
he would find himself off in a direction of his own. Enoch must have discovered that God doesn’t adjust His pace for anyone.
Enoch had to adjust his pace and direction to God’s if he wanted to walk with
Him. Surely Enoch, with all his family duties, must have been stressed-out at
times but he still took time to walk with God.
Think of the
blessing those walks were to God. Since Adam and Eve had been banished from the
Garden of Eden, God had longed for a human companion to share walks with. In
Enoch, God found that one. Enoch loved walking and talking with God and the
walks got longer and longer until one day he walked all the way home with God.
What
A Walk!
Let us begin
daily walks with God.
By, James L. Thornton
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James Thornton
I am a retired pastor currently living in the Nashville, Tn. area and we attend First Church, Bro. Ron Becton pastor. We are putting our sermons and Bible studies on the web. We have been doing this for five years and have more than 3 million visits on it. We would like to share some of our studies and writings with all the people on Everyone Apostolic. My wife, Mary Lee, has Bible Quizzing questions on almost every verse in the Bible and would like to share this also. James & Mary Lee Thornton
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