Enoch's Life of Holiness

[Thompson, Darryl]

Enoch's Life of Holiness

     Enoch walked with God . . . three hundred years. Gen. 5:22  

     There was a line of holy men who, elevated and ennobled by
communion with God, lived as in the companionship of Heaven. They were
men of massive intellect, of wonderful attainments. They had a great and
holy mission--to develop a character of righteousness, to teach a lesson
of godliness, not only to the men of their time, but for future
generations. . . .  

     Of Enoch it is written that he lived sixty-five years, and begat a
son. After that he walked with God three hundred years. During these
earlier years Enoch had loved and feared God and had kept His
commandments. . . . From the lips of Adam he had learned the dark story
of the fall and the cheering one of God's grace as seen in the promise,
and he relied upon the Redeemer to come. But after the birth of his
first son Enoch reached a higher experience; he was drawn into a closer
relationship with God. He realized more fully his own obligations and
responsibility as a son of God. And as he saw the child's love for its
father, its simple trust in his protection; as he felt the deep,
yearning tenderness of his own heart for that first-born son, he learned
a precious lesson of the wonderful love of God to men in the gift of His
Son and the confidence which the children of God may repose in their
heavenly Father. The infinite, unfathomable love of God through Christ
became the subject of his meditations day and night, and with all the
fervor of his soul he sought to reveal that love to the people among
whom he dwelt.  

     Enoch's walk with God was not in a trance or a vision, but in all
the duties of his daily life. . . . In the family and in his intercourse
with men, as a husband and father, a friend, a citizen, he was the
steadfast, unwavering servant of the Lord. 

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