Enoch Walked With God

Good Morning!

Last month I had a birthday. While that’s not startling news, it is an annual occurrence that signifies both my longevity and also a dwindling of my time allotted on this earth. And while that may seem a weird way of looking at things (I often am accused of being somewhat weird), I contend such thinking is accurate. So we should take advantage of each new day as true blessing from God.

On my way home from Bible study yesterday, I couldn’t get old Enoch out of my mind. If the name is unfamiliar, you can find him listed in the genealogy shown in Genesis 5. Now there is another Enoch – but he is Cain’s son and not the same one listed in Chapter 5. Here’s what we know about Enoch, the son of Jared, the great-great-great grandson of Seth:

Genesis 5:21-24 (English Standard Version)
21When Enoch had lived 65 years, he fathered Methuselah. 22Enoch walked with God[a] after he fathered Methuselah 300 years and had other sons and daughters. 23Thus all the days of Enoch were 365 years. 24Enoch walked with God, and he was not,[b] for God took him.
Footnotes:
a. Genesis 5:22 Septuagint pleased God
b. Genesis 5:24 Septuagint was not found

If you read the rest of the chapter, you will find that all the other men (with the exception of Noah) listed lived a number of years and died. But Enoch did not die. “Enoch walked with God and was not - for God took him.” Imagine that! Actually, using the years listed in the genealogy, only Adam had died at the time Enoch walked with God – so all of his grandfathers except Adam were still living when Enoch walked with God.

Well, as I am driving along, I am thinking about that old Baptist standard “In The Garden”. You may not remember the hymn but the lyrics are as follows:

In The Garden

I come to the garden alone
While the dew is still on the roses
And the voice I hear falling on my ear
The Son of God discloses.

Refrain
And He walks with me, and He talks with me,
And He tells me I am His own;
And the joy we share as we tarry there,
None other has ever known.

He speaks, and the sound of His voice,
Is so sweet the birds hush their singing,
And the melody that He gave to me
Within my heart is ringing.

Refrain

I’d stay in the garden with Him
Though the night around me be falling,
But He bids me go; through the voice of woe
His voice to me is calling.

Refrain

Words: Charles Austin Miles (1912

I began thinking how it might have been when Enoch walked with God. Did Enoch go off to be alone with God one afternoon and while they were communing, God suggested that Enoch go home? And when Enoch arose to depart, did God reach His hand out to Enoch and say “no, I mean to your new home”? And did Enoch take God’s hand and walk side by side into Glory? I don’t know – I am just surmising how it might have been. Or perhaps I am thinking of that time when God calls me home – and hoping that it will be just that way. Not that I am hoping that it will be anytime soon.

Have a great day in the Lord.

Agape’


Mr. Jim

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