02-20-08 Walking with God -- Genesis 5:22
And after he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.
-- Genesis 5:22
I've often wondered about the time from Adam to Noah. What was life like? Think about it. In our world, it takes 1-15 years to become proficient at a profession. To take out 15 years, for example, to become a neurosurgeon, you are committed to that path probably for life. But if you live to be 800 years old, you could learn to be a surgeon, a plumber, an attorney, a writer, an architect -- whatever -- you could be all of those things. And if childbearing years stretched into the centuries, a couple might have over a hundred children. You can see why it says that people built cities. They needed cities to contain the tens of thousands of descendants they would see during their own lifetime. We think of this time as being primitive, but we don't know that. It may very well have been more advanced in many technologies than we are now.
In the middle of these centuries, a pivotal figure emerges. Enoch, the seventh from Adam. He may have had a hundred children. He may have been a surgeon, an attorney, a prophet, an architect, and who knows what all else rolled up into one. But one thing mattered above everything else: He walked with God.
This is one thing I appreciate about our Father in heaven. There are many things that may be beyond the reach of most of us. But God makes the thing that matters most easy to find. He put it on the lower shelf so all of us can reach it. He opens the door, holds out His hand and says, "Let's take a walk."
Be encouraged!
Dwight
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