WALK WITH ME

 

If there is anyone who is a better example of God’s power in their life, it is Enoch. I am enthralled by him. He became what he alone could never become. A stammering man of speech, he became a spiritual giant of words in whose presence people trembled when he spoke (Moses 6:47; 7:13), as already mentioned. He became this person accepting the most sublime invitation ever uttered by God: “Walk with me” (Moses 6:34). And walk with God Enoch did, and ‘was continually before His face’, for 365 years, making him 430 when he was translated with his city (D&C 107:49; Moses 6:39). This walk revealed God to him and earned him the visions of all the hosts of heaven and of eternity (Moses 7:3,4)

 

What enthralls me about Enoch is this: by walking with God, he became like God. Moses records this in the most endearing way as he recounts the way that Enoch became a man of sorrow who wept with God over the people (Moses 7:41,44); over the earth (vs 49,58); and over the heavens and its host, with such intensity that all eternity shook (v 41). Can you imagine anguish such as this? 

 

So powerful did Enoch become that his whole city followed him in walking with God, becoming Zion, the pure in heart, a city that was  taken from this earth (Moses 7:69), but the Lord promised him that he will return and here is hope of all hope, for us: “…great tribulations shall be among the children of men, but my people will I preserve” (v 61). We can only surmise that His people are those who walk with Him.

 

Walking with God is a personal journey of seeking after righteousness and being filled with the light of truth. It means that others can ‘see’ God in you and desire to walk with Him too. Besides Enoch, the scriptures state that Noah and his sons walked with God (Moses 8:27), as did Abraham and Isaac (Genesis 48:15) and even Moses’ brother Levi (Malachi 2:4-6), because ‘the law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips’ (v6).

 

We can walk many paths in life. The roads are endless, but there is only one road where the Saviour beckons: “Walk with me”.

 

You flowed like a river through my heart

Showing me the wonder of You;

You lifted my eyes higher to see the majestic view.

You parted the heavens for me

And helped me see what I alone could never see;

You gave me the hope and the might

To be what I alone could never be. 

- CATHRYNE ALLEN