MEDITATIONS
FROM GENESIS
May 2 , 2007
Reading: Genesis 5:21-24
"And Enoch walked with God” Genesis
Throughout
scripture the Holy Spirit has given honorable mention to the faith of the
patriarchs, both in the old and new testaments. What wonders were accomplished
by faith! “They walked with God!” They “endured as seeing him who is
invisible.” They communed with God, and were as conscious of his spiritual
presence, as we are of physical objects. Therefore, by these acts of frequent
communion, their souls found a growing likeness. The more they loved God, the
more their minds were led by grace into an increasing conformity to that which
they loved. He who walks with wise men will be wise. We naturally imbibe the
manners, the sentiments, the very habits of those with whom we like to
associate. How much more must a frequent communion with our Lord produce conformity
to Him whom our soul loves.“
“But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a
mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from
glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord” 2 Corinthians 3:18.
Are these things so with you, my soul? If not, then
it is because you do not walk with God. You do not, as Enoch did, keep up a
continual communion with Jesus. How was it when the Holy Spirit first opened
your eyes to the wonders of salvation and your Savior?
Did you not spend much time in communion with Him? Is it still so or are you experiencing
a leanness and decline in spiritual things?
“Oh! for grace to
walk with God, as Enoch walked! Make me, dear Lord, jealous above all things of
my own heart. Let every morning, with the first dawn of day, call me up to holy communion with thee. And let every night toll the bell
of reflection, to examine what visits I have had from thee, and what visits I
have made to thee; and let nothing satisfy my soul but the continual walk of
faith with thee; that from an increasing knowledge of thee, increasing
communion with thee, and increasing confidence in thee, my soul may be growing
up into such lively actings of grace upon thy person, blood, and righteousness,
that a daily walk of communion with my Lord, may be gradually preparing my soul
for the everlasting enjoyment of him; and when death comes, though it make a
change of place, yet will it make no change of company; but “awaking up after
thy likeness, I shall be fully satisfied with it.” Robert Hawker