March 23, 2023: He Couldn't Get Back

"Enoch walked with God ... Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him." (Genesis 5:22–24, ESV)

Enoch was the first man since Adam, said to have walked with God. Perhaps he learned from Adam how to walk with God. And Enoch became more and more hungry to walk with Him.

To walk with someone is to be in close fellowship with them. It was said of many Old Testament kings that they walked before God, but only Enoch and Noah walked with God. What a testimony! The prophet Amos said, "Can two people walk together without agreeing on the direction?" (Amos 3:3) Enoch agreed with God on the direction that God was leading him. Therefore, Enoch lived in close fellowship with God. When Enoch first appears in scripture, it is said that he walked with God. And at the close of his life, it is written he walked with God.

To walk also implies movement. Enoch stayed in step with God, and the movement of God created a God movement in Enoch's life. Hebrews 11:5-6 says that Enoch, by faith, was taken up by God and did not taste death. Before he was taken, he was commended as having a testimony that pleased God. Enoch lived in such a way as to please God! God took pleasure in Enoch. Enoch's expression of faith in God resulted in God experiencing the presence of Enoch. Faith does this! 

Enoch took pleasure in God and got so far out there with God that he could not get back! What a testimony!