Enoch Walked

"When Enoch had lived 65 years, he fathered Methuselah. 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." Genesis 5:21-24

"I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken." Psalm 16:8

Enoch was just like us. He had two parents he was supposed to obey, he had brothers and sisters that probably annoyed him at times. He grew up and met a girl, and had to deal with all that stuff! He fell in love, got married, and then had a bunch of kids of his own.

Genesis 5 is a genealogy from Adam to Noah.  So Genesis 5 is a whole lot of, 'this guy had this son, he lived another 600ish years, having other sons and daughters, and that all together he lived 700ish years.'

Notice in Enoch's verse it says that after he fathered Methuselah, he walked with God another 300 years. And then God took him.

See, Enoch didn't just live. He walked with God. He may have been just like us, but he has a relationship with God that we all covet. And that's because he walked with God. He had God always set before him. And because God was always before him, all that crazy stuff in life, the temptations, the trials, and the regular hard days didn't move him. He kept walking with God.

Strive for a relationship with God so intense that He can say something like, 'No, you didn't just live you life. You walked it with me. You set Me always before you. Way to go!'

---Joy