Made to Walk With God
3 Reflections
We were made to walk with God. Enoch is one of two people in the Bible who never died (the other being Elijah). Instead of entering the graveyard of Genesis 5, God took Enoch. Enoch didn’t just live; he walked with God. And because he walked with God, God broke Enoch free from the death sentence he inherited from Adam.
A son of Adam pleased the Lord. Hebrews 11:5 says before Enoch was taken, “he had this testimony; he pleased God.” This is no small thing. Consider that Enoch lived in a world so wicked that God was sorry He created it. Yet, in the midst of so much darkness, God finds one man who delights His heart with an unusual measure of faith. And that man defied the gravitational pull of Adam’s sin toward the grave. The power of this story isn’t so much that Enoch walked with God; it’s that God walked with Enoch. God enjoyed walking with this son of Adam so much that he walked Him right on home to heaven.
Man was not born to die; he was born to live, and that life comes by walking with God. Enoch’s life prophesied of a day when God would pour out faith like a flood, and all who believe will be saved from the grave. His story is a signpost pointing to the gospel, an announcement that death will not have the final word over those who belong to God.
"Faith expects from God what is beyond all expectation.” Andrew Murray
2 Scriptures
"Jesus said to her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in Me shall never die.’”
— John 11:25-26
“...our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.”
— 2 Timothy 1:10
1 Action
Ask yourself:
Am I walking with God right now?
Maybe that was true of you in the past, but somewhere along the way you stopped. Like the parable of the sower in Matthew 13, you may have started well, but the cares of life wrapped their thorns around your heart, and your walk with God became crowded out.
Maybe you haven’t stopped altogether, but your walk is not as consistent as it once was. Maybe something wounded you along the way, and without realizing it, you began projecting that hurt onto God.
Or maybe you have never actually walked with God. It is possible to know about Him, agree with true things about Him, and still never stand beside Him and let Him lead you.
Wherever you are, the invitation to walk with Jesus is in front of you today.
Grace and peace,
NEIL
