Walking With God

From: The Christian Shepherd: 2001

By: Henry Short

• 1 min. read • grade level: 4

Enoch walked with God and “was not; for God took him” (Gen. 5:24²⁴And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. (Genesis 5:24)). Being taken will be repeated at the rapture for those of us [believers] who are “alive and remain” (1 Thess. 4:15,17¹⁵For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. (1 Thessalonians 4:15)
¹⁷Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. (1 Thessalonians 4:17)). This is a certainty. May it also be said that we walked with our God too.

There is something so wonderful about that expression. It isn’t the same as if it said God walked with Enoch. No, rather it is, “Enoch walked with God.” It was said by Jacob when he returned to Beth-el, “God . . . was with me in the way which I went” (Gen. 35:3³And let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went. (Genesis 35:3)). This refers to those days when Jacob was away from Beth-el, scheming his way through life.

So it is true of us. The Lord will never leave us or forsake us. But that is quite different from our walking with Him. The Lord God came down to walk in the garden, but man hid himself because of sin. May we judge ourselves and value, above all else, the privilege we now have to walk with Him. It is His desire who has called us unto fellowship—with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.

H. Short

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