Walking with God

When I come across genealogies in the Bible, often times I will breeze right through them, thinking nothing of it. This time something caught my eye..

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Most of Genesis 5 is a genealogy from the line of Seth, one of Adam's son. As I was reading all the begets and the deaths of these people, verse 22-24 stopped me in my tracks.

"Then Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he became the father of Methuselah, and he had other sons and daughters. So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. Enoch walked with God: and he was not, for God took him."

Enoch did not experience death. His rescue from death was a result of his "walking with God." In the midst of all of those genealogies the author of Genesis stops his literary pattern to expound on Enoch a little bit and tell why he was different. He walked with God and because of that God took him up to heaven. Now we can also contrast that with the next chapter that deals with Noah.

In Genesis 6:9 it says "These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God.

Noah walked with God and he and his family were saved from the flood. In the story of Noah and the flood, the author of Genesis is able to repeat the lesson of Enoch. "Life comes through walking with God."

Living in a way that pleases God grants us his blessing and gives us true life. Have you been walking with God today?