Prelude to ‘Walking with God’

By Ron. v. Leerdam

“Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no
more, because God took him away.” Genesis 5:24.

God has created a wonderful world and human beings are most wonderfully made in God’s image. From the beginning we are made to walk with God, sin and its curse have destroyed the relationship God desires us to enjoy with our creator and maker. Though the inclination of the human heart is inclined toward evil, God graciously calls people to seek Him with all their heart and walk with Him. Enoch is one of the two people recorded in Scripture who did not die. Jesus suffered and died for sinners rising from the grave the victor over Satan, sin and death. Those who put their faith in Him have the assurance that though they die, yet they will live with Him forever. Christ calls all his followers to Walk with Him.

What does it look like ‘in real life’ to walk with God?

There is a time for everything,
    and a season for every activity under the heavens:

    a time to be born and a time to die,
    a time to plant and a time to uproot,
    a time to kill and a time to heal,
    a time to tear down and a time to build,
    a time to weep and a time to laugh,
    a time to mourn and a time to dance,
    a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
    a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
    a time to search and a time to give up,
    a time to keep and a time to throw away,
    a time to tear and a time to mend,
    a time to be silent and a time to speak,
    a time to love and a time to hate,
    a time for war and a time for peace.

What do workers gain from their toil? I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God. I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.

Whatever is has already been,
    and what will be has been before;
    and God will call the past to account.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-15