Genesis5_22-24

Genesis 5:22-24

And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:

And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

It was a blessing that one man named Enoch escaped from death in the line of Seth’s offspring. In contrast, Cain’s descendants built a civilization away from God and achieved a high level of technology and culture in their struggle against death, yet they still eventually died. But Enoch found a way to avoid death, which was walking with God. It was not an easy thing to walk with God. It indicated that a person had to put away his sinful nature and receive more and more of God’s attributes. Otherwise, a person could hardly walk with God.

If you want to walk with someone, it means you must adjust yourself to follow him in all aspects—your thoughts, your habits, your dislikes, your lifestyle, and so on. One thing is certain: you must love the one you walk with.

As we know, the sin in our body has great power to control us. Therefore, Paul said that no good thing dwelt in him and that he could not do what he wanted because of the inner sin (Romans 7:18–20). Hence, it was difficult for Enoch as well. He spent three hundred years walking with God. Later, he was taken by God and did not experience death.

For example, God never lies. So Enoch had to live in the same way as God. Compared with us, it is almost impossible for a person not to lie in daily life. Even a good person tells small lies in his everyday living.

Walking with God means that what we do and think becomes more and more like God, or even the same as God Himself.