Enoch…
When I read this , this morning I felt it was worthy of sharing…it behooves each of us to question our walk in this world…are we walking with God or the world…
There are over 300 verses that contain the word, “ walk”. So many good ones…
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.
Gen.6.9
But he said to me, ‘The Lord, before whom I have walked, will send his angel with you and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my clan and from my father's house.
Gen.24.40
“If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. And I will walk among you and will be your God, and you shall be my people.
Lev.26.3-4,Lev.26.12
If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you today, by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them, I declare to you today, that you shall surely perish. You shall not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess.
Deut.30.16-18
And if you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”
1Kgs.3.14
He who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart;
Ps.15.2
Whoever walks in integrity walks securely,but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out.
Prov.10.9
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light;those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness,on them has light shone. For to us a child is born,to us a son is given;and the government shall be upon his shoulder,and his name shall be calledWonderful Counselor, Mighty God,Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Isa.9.2,Isa.9.
“If a man is righteous and does what is just and right— walks in my statutes, and keeps my rules by acting faithfully—he is righteous; he shall surely live, declares the Lord God.
Ezek.18.5,Ezek.18.9
He has told you, O man, what is good;and what does the Lord require of youbut to do justice, and to love kindness,and to walk humbly with your God?
Mic.6.8
So Jesus said to them, “The light is among you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going. While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.”
John.12.35,John.12.36a
for we walk by faith, not by sight.
2Cor.5:7
Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,
Eph.5.15
And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;
Col.1.9,Col.1.10
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
1John.1.7
Pslam 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiz8LQkGSlM
Thank YOU…

A DAILY DEVOTION FOR JANUARY 30TH
The Man Who Never Saw Death
READ THE SCRIPTURE: HEBREWS 11:5-6
By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God. And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
Hebrews 11:5-6
I love the story of the little Sunday school girl who, after Sunday school, said to her mother one day, “Mother, we heard about the most wonderful man in Sunday school today. His name was Enoch, and he used to go on long walks with God. One day they walked so far that God said to him, ‘It's too far for you to go back, you better come home with Me now.’ And he just walked on home with God. ”
That's exactly what this implies. Why was this man taken without seeing death? Of all the long line of humanity, why is he the great exception? Genesis says Enoch walked with God. Is this a promise that if we walk with God we shall never die? Yes, in a sense it is. You remember those words of Jesus: “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die” (John 11:25-26).
There's a sense that when we walk with God we never really see physical death. But let me suggest something else. Is this not a lesson on the physical level intended to illustrate for us something on the spiritual level? We are told very plainly that Enoch was taken in order that he would not see death, and death, as you know, in scripture has a double meaning. There's that word “death,” which means the end of life, the cessation of the body's existence. But it also has the meaning of the end of life, such as abundant life, such as we describe as “really living.” Therefore, it means futility, barrenness, dullness, drabness, meaninglessness and emptiness. That's death. That's what it means in Romans 8:6, “The mind governed by the flesh is death” — drabness, barrenness, emptiness. The question that this brings before us is this: Are you living in death even as a Christian, because you do not walk with God? Enoch's life is a testimony to us, that if we walk with God we shall not see death; that the answer to barrenness, drabness and dullness is this daily stepping out by faith on the promises of God; this daily testing of his promises of his presence, and reckoning upon them. It was by faith that Enoch walked with God, by testing what God said, and discovering it was true as he stepped out upon it.
What a surprising thing this is, Father, to see in this man of the ancient past such a vivid picture of your workings with us in our own lives today. As we see something of the brevity of life, may this call again our attention to walk with you.
Life Application
How are you testing, and believing in, the promises of what God has said?
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