I love being reminded of the faithfulness of Enoch and Noah in today's reading! It's not because of some heroic act that they were favored of the Lord--it was because of their daily consistency, their daily faithfulness, their daily WALK with God.
In the book Last Day Events, Ellen White writes of Enoch:
"Enoch walked with God three hundred years previous to his translation to heaven, and the state of the world was not then more favorable for the perfection of Christian character than it is today. And how did Enoch walk with God? He educated his mind and heart to ever feel that he was in the presence of God, and when in perplexity his prayers would ascend to God to keep him.
He refused to take any course that would offend his God. He kept the Lord continually before him. He would pray, “Teach me Thy way, that I may not err. What is Thy pleasure concerning me? What shall I do to honor Thee, my God?” Thus he was constantly shaping his way and course in accordance with God’s commandments, and he had perfect confidence and trust in his heavenly Father, that He would help him. He had no thought or will of his own. It was all submerged in the will of his Father.
Now Enoch was a representative of those who will be upon the earth when Christ shall come, who will be translated to heaven without seeing death.
Enoch had temptations as well as we. He was surrounded with society no more friendly to righteousness than is that which surrounds us. The atmosphere he breathed was tainted with sin and corruption the same as ours, yet he lived a life of holiness. He was unsullied with the prevailing sins of the age in which he lived. So may we remain pure and uncorrupted." (Last Day Events, p. 71)
Let's pray that God will teach us to walk as Enoch walked...
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