Walking With God: What's The Big Deal?

Walking With God: What's The Big Deal?

“Can two walk together, except they be agreed?” (Amos 3:3)

Throughout the Bible we find that there are several people described as “walking with God” but there are two men that actually “walked” with God in such a way that it is said they “walked faithfully with God”. In Genesis 5:24 we read that “Enoch walked faithfully with God” insomuch that the Bible says that one day “he was no more, because God took him.” This man just walked right into heaven.

My mind can’t seem to comprehend that type of relationship between Enoch and God. The closeness that Enoch had with God, no other man is recorded to have that type of closeness. Sure we read about men like Elijah and how he was taken up in a fiery chariot. But again, here is another man that had a special relationship with God that he did not see death because he was picked up and rode into heaven. Oh, to have that type of relationship with God. Today we are so inundated with our own issues, or the issues of other people, that we don’t have time to develop that type of closeness or relationship with God. Yes, we have a relationship with God, but is it the type of relationship that will cause others to write about us that we walked faithfully with God in such a way that we either walked into heaven or was picked up and rode in?

The second man that the Bible says “walked faithfully with God” was Noah. Genesis 6:9 describes him as "a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God. Noah’s relationship with God enabled him to escape the destruction of the world by way of a flood. And because of his own closeness with God his walk saved him and his family. Can your walk with God save you and your family today? I think not because in the time in which we live, everyone has to be accountable for themselves. It would nice to be able to save our family members by our own faithfulness. But it does not work like that. Because God requires us to live and act justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with Him the best way we know how. This is God’s desire for us as stated in Micah 6:8 "He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God." 

God desires all of His children to walk with Him. Walking with God is not an activity reserved for a select few folk. This type of walk is required for us to enter into His glory.

Life's Word Ministry
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