Enoch walked with God three hundred years, and had sons and daughters. So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him. Genesis 5:22–24 NKJV
For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps. 1 Peter 2:21 NKJV
Strange that I am not always looking up if I expect to see the door of heaven open and the One I love coming out. Oh! what a scene, when He comes forth to change these vile bodies, fashioning them like to His own glorious body!
Don’t think that He who saved you out of Egypt wants you to wander in the wilderness as if He had no proper place prepared for you. He wants you to be walking as those for whom the place is prepared: a place where He will have all His own around Him, in all His own beauty, overflowing with all His own joy; when He shall have put out forever every root that troubled us in the wilderness. The pilgrims and soldiers of the cross shall be changed after such a fashion that nothing down here could be good enough for them; nothing short of heaven will do. Don’t be satisfied with anything less. Christ never had a home down here. This world was a wilderness to Him; it did not bear the stamp of His Father’s heart. If there is a strange place to me, it ought to be the place where my Lord was crucified.
There is no joy in this life like the joy of walking with God, like the joy of picking out my footsteps after my Lord, with His eye upon me, following my steps all through the wilderness.
“Risen with Christ,” my glorious Head;
Holiness, now, the pathway I tread,
Beautiful thought, while walking therein:
“He that is dead is freed from sin.”
Glory be to God.