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Walk With God Continually, December 3
Prepering for Eternal Life
And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
Genesis 5:24
When God takes the members of His church to heaven, it will be
because they have walked with Him here on this earth, receiving from
above strength and wisdom which enables them to serve Him aright.
Those who are taken to God will be men and women who now pray in
humility and contrition, whose hearts are not lifted up unto vanity. In
their dealing with believers and unbelievers they represent Christ.
Those who have no pleasure in thinking and talking of God in this
life will not enjoy the life that is to come, where God is ever present,
dwelling among His people. But those who love to think of God will be
in their element, breathing in the atmosphere of heaven. Those who on
earth love the thought of heaven will be happy in its holy associations
and pleasures....
When in the world they did not claim to be their own, and God set
to His seal that they were His. Heaven will be for those who desire it
with intense desire, who put forth efforts in proportion to the value of the
object which they seek. The thoughts of those who will obtain heaven
will be upon heavenly things.
“Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God.” For three
hundred years Enoch had been seeking purity of soul, that he might be in
harmony with Heaven. For three centuries he had walked with God. Day
by day he had longed for a closer union; nearer and nearer had grown
the communion, until God took him to Himself. He had stood at the
threshold of the eternal world, only a step between him and the land
of the blest; and now the portals opened, the walk with God, so long
pursued on earth, continued, and he passed through the gates of the Holy
City—the first from among men to enter there.
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