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Enoch’s Life of Holiness, September 8
Examples of Sanctified Lives
Enoch walked with God ... three hundred years.
Genesis 5:22
There was a line of holy men who, elevated and ennobled by commu-
nion with God, lived as in the companionship of Heaven. They were men
of massive intellect, of wonderful attainments. They had a great and holy
mission—to develop a character of righteousness, to teach a lesson of
godliness, not only to the men of their time, but for future generations....
Of Enoch it is written that he lived sixty-five years, and begat a son.
After that he walked with God three hundred years. During these earlier
years Enoch had loved and feared God and had kept His command-
ments.... From the lips of Adam he had learned the dark story of the fall
and the cheering one of God’s grace as seen in the promise, and he relied
upon the Redeemer to come. 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 first-born 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 meditations 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.... 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.
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