A Happy Walk With Jesus

[Daily Devotional]

A Happy Walk With Jesus 

     And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. Gen. 5:24.


     Enoch lived in a corrupt age, when moral power was very weak. Pollution
was teeming all around him, yet he walked with God. He educated his mind to
devotion--to think on things that were pure and holy; and his conversation
was upon holy and divine things. He was made a companion of God. He walked
with Him, and received His counsel. He had to contend with the same
temptations that we do. The society surrounding him was no more friendly to
righteousness than is the society surrounding us at the present time. The
atmosphere he breathed was tainted with sin and corruption, the same as
ours, yet he was unsullied with the prevailing sins of the age in which he
lived. And so may we remain as pure and uncorrupted as did the faithful
Enoch.  

     We are living in an age when wickedness prevails. The perils of the
last days thicken around us, and because iniquity abounds the love of many
waxes cold.... The shortness of time is urged as an incentive for us to seek
righteousness and to make Christ our friend. This is not the great motive.
It savors of selfishness. Is it necessary that the terrors of the day of God
be held before us to compel us through fear to right action? This ought not
to be. Jesus is attractive. He is full of love, mercy, and compassion. He
proposes to be our friend, to walk with us through all the rough pathways of
life. He says to you, I am the Lord thy God; walk with Me, and I will fill
thy path with light. Jesus, the Majesty of heaven, proposes to elevate to
companionship with Himself those who come to Him with their burdens, their
weaknesses, and their cares. He will make them His dear children, and
finally give them an inheritance of more value than the empires of kings, a
crown of glory richer than has ever decked the brow of the most exalted
earthly monarch. . . .  

     It is our privilege to have a calm, close, happy walk with Jesus every
day we live.  

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