Devotion Corner
Genesis 5:23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
Enoch is rightly famous for his deep, daily communion with the Lord. His walk with God was so consistent, so rich of soul and pure of heart, that the Lord saw it fit that His dear servant Enoch should not see death. What a prize for a faithful life lived!
Such a devoted life was all the more remarkable, in that Enoch did not just share his life in greatest intimacy with God each day for only a year or two. Enoch walked with God with diligence and earnestness each day for 300 years! Could you or I claim to have been so devoted to our Lord and Saviour each day?! In the fullness of honesty before God, most of us must admit that we often struggle to truly walk with God for more than a few days, let alone years!
Yet we shouldn’t become disillusioned, allowing ourselves to sink into despair over what hope do we have to be as faithful a follower of the Lord as Enoch. Enoch was a mortal man and a sinner as much as any other man. Indeed it would appear that it wasn’t until Enoch turned 65 that he began to walk with God (Genesis 5:22).
Herein though is the message to each of us today. That when we add the 65 years to the 300 years of Enoch’s life in total, we come to the same number as we have days of the year, 365. True discipleship; true devotion to Christ Jesus is a relationship that is to be treasured, nurtured and utilised every day of our lives. It’s so easy to allow our faith to become an addition to our lives, when it should be the anchor and reason for our lives. It should be the lifeblood of our existence, so that we love to share every moment of our life with our precious Saviour and Redeemer. That is walking with God.
If we could live in such a manner, and emulate Enoch, we could know a glory of Heaven in these mortal days. That glory would be to walk with the very Son of God and know Him as He knows us, growing from faith to faith each day. We would be rightly preparing ourselves to step into the glistening golden streets of Heaven, all whilst our weak and troubled legs step through these mortal days.
Thereby, the close of this life will be as untroubled as a peaceful falling asleep, just as the Scriptures speak of all believers doing as they go home to glory. We would slip away to glory so calmly, so joyfully of spirit, just as Enoch did so long before. This is the eternal glory of the Gospel. A glorious message known from the earliest days of this world. A message that will be celebrated all the days of eternity future, all to the glory of God. Amen.
