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"Sweet Stuff From God's Word"

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WALKING WITH GOD

This entry was posted on 09-29-2009 and is filed under ABOUT GOD.

I've been teaching a class from Hebrews 11 and I noticed last week that Enoch and Noah had something in common. Genesis 5:24 says, "Enoch walked with God, then he was no more, because God took him away." Genesis 6:9 says, "This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God." That's the common denominator: they both walked with God. To have that kind of fellowship with God is really something.

I enjoy walking with my wife, sometimes early in the morning but at other times in the cool of the evening. I wonder if that was God's practice with Adam and Eve before they sinned and were evicted from the beautiful garden. "Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden" (Gen. 3:8 NIV). Sin will keep us from enjoying a close relationship with God. A poet wrote:
At cool of day, with God I walk
My garden's grateful shade;
I hear His voice among the trees
And I am not afraid.

Angelus Silesius (1624 - 1677) said, "It is astonishing that I - dust, ash, and mud - May on familiar terms be with the highest God." Just think about that for a moment or so. The God who created the universe desires to have fellowship with you and me. Let us always remember that. William Ralph Inge made this observation: "It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God."

Hymn: "There is a place of quiet rest, Near to the heart of God, A place where sin cannot molest, Near to the heart of God" (Cleland B. McAfee, 1901).