Day #1: Enoch Walked with God

If my gravestone legacy could be as simple as Enoch’s I would die knowing I accomplished everything in life. Enoch teaches us an important lesson: Life is walking with God, and nothing else.

I still haven’t decided what exactly I’m going to do with this blog, but I’m starting it anyways—please bear with me as I play it out.

Walking—it is a choice. It is a simple action. But sometimes it takes all our effort and faith to continue doing so. God gave me a vision once of what my life looked like. It was the picture of me walking, but surrounded by fog. As he revealed more of the vision, I realized that I was actually walking on water, not on solid ground. Not only could I not see where I was going, but I was also moving forward on very precarious territory. It took most of my faith to stand on such a surface, much less to move forward into the unknown fog. It seems I’ve never really known what I have signed up for with God, I just take faith steps hoping He stays in control.

So much of life is like this. We use so much of our energy simply to stand, that we can’t even imagine moving forward. Moving forward is scary (or exciting, depending on our perspective of the moment) and it’s hard because we don’t always know what we’re moving into. We have to trust that God actually does have a plan for our life and that by dedicating ourselves to Him we are actually depending on someone with a greater purpose who knows better than we do what in the world is going on here on earth.

Psalms 131 talks about how I should not “involve myself in things too difficult for me.” I am to “compose and quite my soul: like a weaned child rests against his mother, my soul is like a weaned child within me.” I am to “hope in the Lord from this time forth and forever.” As I walk on I need to realize that staying above water is actually impossible for me to do without God. The more I try to preoccupy myself with things that are not God, the trickier it gets to stay afloat. All I can do is focus on simply remaining close to God, and then walk. He knows where I’m going even if I do not.

I loose my focus; I get worried—about my future, about my career, about my heart, about understanding God’s heart, about those I love. I forget about “the simplicity and purity of devotion” that is in Christ (2 Cor. 11:3).

There will be things that will catch my breath unexpectedly in life. There will be curveballs and bends in the road. All I can do is stay afloat and walk.

Walking = to move in God = to know God = to be near enough to Him that I can take the next step knowing I am covered in His blessing.