Let us consider a man called Enoch we highlight the fact that he walked with God for 300yrs,but it also tells us when he died he had lived 365 yrs( Genesis 5 v 21-24) .So it appears that for 65 yrs he didn't walk with God. So at the age of 65 with the birth of a son called Methuselah ,things changed,and changed for the better, in that he started walking with God.His walk was one that pleased God for it was a walk of faith.Let me ask you a question how would you descibe your walk with God?, is it a walk of faith?is it a walk that pleases God?.The apostle Paul touches on this in 1 Thessalonians 4 v1, he writes,'We instructed you how to live in order to please God'.It involves faith, obedience,love,and holiness,it is not about making a new years resolution,it is about our relationship with God,if that's right then everything else will be right. In this walk we must put God first in all our lives, the totality of our life,when we forget this then we are not pleasing God.We must always be seeking to be perfect as our Father in heaven is perfect,that is our aim,but being in this body of flesh we will sin and fail.Enoch was not perfect none of us are,but when we fall we must seek forgiveness and repent of our sins,and that will please God,Someone said ,'The person who abides in Christ,cannot walk in sin' in Proverbs 24 v16 reads,'For though the righteous fall seven times,they arise again'.
'I want to walk with Jesus Christ
All the days I live of this life on earth,
To give to Him complete control.
I want t learn to speak to Him,
To pray to Him,to confess my sin,
To open my life and let Him in'
Words Clive Simmonds
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