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He Walked with God, January 22
Genesis 5:21-24
Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: and Enoch
walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years.
Genesis 5:21, 22
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Of Enoch it is written that he lived sixty-five years, and begat a son....
During these earlier years Enoch had loved and feared God and had kept His
commandments.... But after the birth of his first son, Enoch reached a higher
experience; he was drawn into a closer relationship with God. He realized more
fully his own obligations and responsibility as a son of God. And as he saw
the child’s love for its father, its simple trust in his protection; as he felt the
deep, yearning tenderness of his own heart for that firstborn son, he learned a
precious lesson of the wonderful love of God to men in the gift of His Son, and
the confidence which the children of God may repose in their heavenly Father.
The infinite, unfathomable love of God through Christ became the subject of his
meditation day and night; and with all the fervor of his soul he sought to reveal
that love to the people among whom he dwelt.
Enoch’s walk with God was not in a trance or a vision, but in all the duties
of his daily life. He did not become a hermit, shutting himself entirely from the
world; for he had a work to do for God in the world. In the family and in his
intercourse with men, as a husband and father, a friend, a citizen, he was the
steadfast, unwavering servant of the Lord.... And this holy walk was continued
for three hundred years. There are few Christians who would not be far more
earnest and devoted if they knew that they had but a short time to live, or that the
coming of Christ was about to take place. But Enoch’s faith waxed the stronger,
his love became more ardent, with the lapse of centuries
He [Enoch] was of one mind with God.... If we are of one mind with God,
our will will be swallowed up in God’s will, and we shall follow wherever God
leads the way. As a loving child places his hand in that of his father, and walks
with him in perfect trust whether it is dark or bright, so the sons and daughters
of God are to walk with Jesus through joy or sorrow
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Patriarchs and Prophets, 84, 85
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The Review and Herald, December 3, 1889
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