Walking With God

"Enoch walked with God...Noah walked with God"

Throughout the Holy Scriptures, we find a great host of God's people who walked with Him, but of only two men is it explicitly said they did so: Enoch and Noah. Their physical temperaments and spiritual experiences may have differed in many ways, but both had two distinct things in common. The first was the day in which they lived. The second, the fact that both walked with God in that day when we're told: "The wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually...it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth...the earth [was] filled with violence through them." 

It is no easy thing to walk with God when all around you there is wickedness, violence, corruption and immorality. But it can be done, for we have the Divine record that it has already been done. Micah tells us one of the three things God requires of us is to, "...walk humbly with thy God." Notice there is no qualifying of the day in which we're to do so. 

No matter the time in history, society, or culture, we can walk as God's dear children, with dignity and decency. We can walk the high ground, a plain above and apart from our contemporary world! God has given each of His elect a garment of protection in our plagued environment, to keep us from the evil that surrounds us. It is the Blood of Christ. It makes us overcomers. 

I have found in my fifty-six years of walking with God that He is a wonderful traveling companion. It has been an exciting and exhilarating journey, to say the least. One and all who walk with the King will bear witness to my word.  True, travelling with Him will mean going through some stormy times, but as Paul tells us, "...out of them all the Lord
delivered me." 

A Sunday School teacher taught on Enoch's three-hundred year long walk with God. The following Sunday she asked who among her class of six year old's could recount the story. One little girl stood and said, "Enoch walked with God an awfully long, long, long way. Finally God said to him, 'Enoch, we're closer to my House than yours; why don't you just come home with me?'"

"Oh, who would mind the journey when the road leads Home!"