“ And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.”–Gen. 5:24
Enoch recognized the failure of men and women trying to live their lives apart from God and His will. By faith he walked with God on this earth at a time when sin and corruption were wildly rampant all around him. Enoch’s daily walk was a walk of faith, a walk of fellowship with God. What the Scriptures are trying to say to us is this: If Enoch could live and walk with God by faith in the midst of his sinful generation, we likewise should be able to follow his example because the human race is the same and God is the same!… There is only one conclusion to be drawn here. Enoch was translated into the presence of God because of his faith, and thus he escaped death. It is very evident that there was no funeral for Enoch. Those who knew him best surely had to answer many questions. “Where is Enoch?” “What happened to Enoch?” “Why don’t we see Enoch around anymore?” Perhaps members of his own family did not fully understand his walk with God, but they could answer with the facts: “He is gone! God has called him home. God has taken him.”–A W Tozer
Walking with God is our response to being pleased with God and results in us being well pleasing to God, and ends in being with God.
