Walk
in God's way...
Right
thinking leads to right acting! You know how it is when we see somebody acting
strange we say "He ain’t right!" We KNOW the behavior is telling us
something about their thinking.
Consider
Enoch: "When Enoch had lived 65 years, he fathered Methuselah. Enoch
walked with God after he fathered Methuselah 300 years and had other sons and
daughters. Thus all the days of Enoch were 365 years. Enoch walked with God,
and he was not, for God took him." (Genesis 5:21-24 ESV)
We
don't know what Enoch was thinking, and we don't have details about what Enoch
was doing, except this: "Enoch walked with God..." Enoch went about
the things of life with God as his priority and in His presence.
What
was Enoch doing while he was walking with Lord? While we cannot answer that
completely, Jude 1:14-15, gives us some of the answer: "It was also about
these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, 'Behold, the Lord
comes with ten thousands of his holy ones, to execute judgment on all and to
convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have
committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly
sinners have spoken against him.'" (ESV)
Here's
what we do know about Enoch from what the Spirit tells us through Jude: Enoch's
life was marked with sharing the truth with people.
I
imagine Enoch not only told the truth, I imagine Enoch told it with the right
sort of spirit (see James 3:13).
A
person that fears the Lord – that thinks right – that person also acts right
and that person has actions that are God-directed, goals that are God-oriented,
and attitudes that are God-like.
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