Faith And Insight!
"And Enoch walked with God;
and he was not, for God took him."
Genesis 5: 24
Enoch lived 365 years during a time of increasing wickedness
on earth, yet he walked with God. Not only did he live a faithful
life, but his life on earth ended in a unique way. The Message
paraphrase puts it this way: “Enoch walked steadily with God.
And then one day he was simply gone: God took him”
(Genesis 5:24).
Sometimes we're challenged
to walk “steadily” with
God for a single day, much less for more than three
centuries. But Enoch did. We only have two clues in
Scripture as to Enoch’s life.
Hebrews 11:5 refers to him as a man of faith, and Jude 14
refers to him as a man of
spiritual insight. Jude quotes from
the book of Enoch about coming judgment on the wicked,
a well-regarded apocryphal book of Jewish literature from
the first century B.C.
Jude considered words of this book to be an accurate
prophecy of the future. Though the book was
compiled
long after Enoch lived, his words must have carried
weight in the Jewish community.
Faithfulness and spiritual insight,
two traits of Enoch we would do
well to imitate in our lives.
"Faithfulness to God is our first obligation
in all that we are called to do in the
service of the Gospel."
Iain H. Murray
