Walking with God

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Genesis 5 NIV – 21 When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah. 22 After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters. 23 Altogether, Enoch lived a total of 365 years. 24 Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.

The Bible uses the imagery of walking to describe our journey of faith with God. Thus, a picture of two sets of footsteps on the beach is apt. As we go through life, Jesus is beside us, is one way to look at our walk of faith. There are times when the footsteps become one, and those are the times when Jesus carried us in His arms.

Perhaps another way, and a better one, to look at the footsteps on the beach is that we are walking with God to wherever He is leading us. God is still there as we go through life, but we are following Him. We are tagging along to where He is going. We are living in the centre of His will, fulfilling His plans and purposes for our lives. We are thus like the Israelites, as God leads them through Joshua, we are following God to enter into our Promised Land, the land flowing with milk and honey. The LORD is telling us to be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid and do not be discouraged for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go. See Joshua 1:9.

As God leads us and we follow Him, we need not be afraid or discouraged for He is with us. We do not know what life will bring us as the future is uncharted territory, but what we so know is that we are in good stead if we are following Jesus as our Lord and Saviour. He will strengthen us when we are weak and encourage us when we are down.

How’s our walk with God? Are we walking faithfully with Him like Enoch did? Or are we threading our own path and trying to force Jesus to tag along like a parent running after a toddler? Yes, Jesus will never let us go, and like a parent, He will try to make sure we will not fall down and hurt ourselves. But that’s not the path that Father God has appointed for us. Our own path is not God’s plan for us. It’s not the Promised Land flowing with milk and honey. Most importantly, it’s not the path of righteousness that leads to eternal life.

How’s our walk with God? If we have strayed, come back to Him quickly lest we drift farther and farther away as the devil came to steal, kill, and destroy, but Jesus came that we may have abundant life (see John 10:10).