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A Happy Walk With Jesus, November 10
And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
Genesis 5:24
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Enoch lived in a corrupt age, when moral power was very weak. Pol-
lution was teeming all around him, yet he walked with God. He educated
his mind to devotion—to think on things that were pure and holy; and his
conversation was upon holy and divine things. He was made a companion
of God. He walked with Him, and received His counsel. He had to contend
with the same temptations that we do. The society surrounding him was
no more friendly to righteousness than is the society surrounding us at the
present time. The atmosphere he breathed was tainted with sin and corrup-
tion, the same as ours, yet he was unsullied with the prevailing sins of the
age in which he lived. And so may we remain as pure and uncorrupted as
did the faithful Enoch
We are living in an age when wickedness prevails. The perils of the
last days thicken around us, and because iniquity abounds the love of many
waxes cold.... The shortness of time is urged as an incentive for us to seek
righteousness and to make Christ our friend. This is not the great motive.
It savors of selfishness. Is it necessary that the terrors of the day of God be
held before us to compel us through fear to right action? This ought not
to be. Jesus is attractive. He is full of love, mercy, and compassion. He
proposes to be our friend, to walk with us through all the rough pathways
of life. He says to you, I am the Lord thy God; walk with Me, and I will
fill thy path with light. Jesus, the Majesty of heaven, proposes to elevate to
companionship with Himself those who come to Him with their burdens,
their weaknesses, and their cares. He will make them His dear children,
and finally give them an inheritance of more value than the empires of
kings, a crown of glory richer than has ever decked the brow of the most
exalted earthly monarch....
It is our privilege to have a calm, close, happy walk with Jesus every
day we live
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The Review and Herald, August 23, 1881
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13
The Review and Herald, Augus 2, 1881.
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