01 May Walk With God Like Enoch
Enoch seems like one of those Bible characters so distant to us, so different to us, and so close to God. We see the briefest of mentions in Genesis 5. A big list of names is given off, and when Enoch is mentioned it pauses to comment briefly about how his experience of walking with God was so close, he never died, but went to be with the Lord.
We imagine that we cannot be like Enoch, but nothing could be further from the truth.
The first time that walking with God is an idea, it is with Adam and Eve in the garden. They walked with God in the cool of the day. The relationship of the first couple with God was close, intimate, and the communicated all the time.
But sin changed everything… so we think.
It didn’t change everything.
The story of Enoch is interesting because the world is now not good, filled with evil, violence everywhere. The world was so bad that in the very next chapter of Genesis God is grieved and tells Noah to build an ark. But Enoch, despite being surrounded by this evil, walks with God.
Enoch had no Bible, no church or synagogue, and Jesus had not yet come. There were no patriarchs, and no history of stories about God, explaining things, and it was even before the ten commandments. But somehow he was able to know God.
Why do we think that he could know God, despite all his limitations, and yet we with all the advantages and blessings we have, are not able to know God as he did.
The truth is that we can walk with God like Enoch. Sin may have changed many things, but it has not stopped anyone from knowing the Lord who wants to know the Lord. A walk with God is possible for anyone hungry enough for it. You can become so close to Him, that you realise in yourself that you don’t matter anymore, only He matters.
Enoch is actually an encouragement to us, to show us that we too can know the Lord in the same way.
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