A Walk to Remember

Amos 3:3 Do two walk together, unless they agreed to meet? (ESV)

    Daily we walk and at times in the company of others. What a beautiful thing it is to walk alongside the one you love. You don’t find yourself wishing to speed ahead for then fellowship would be broke. Rather you yield your speed to that of your partner, that unity might be kept. Walking is an intimate process. The longer we walk with a person the more we get to know about them. As intimate as it may be this is a conditional process, one such that we must find ourselves in action. If I wish to advance my position I must get up and begin walking. It is only when I fail to walk that I don’t get where I need to go. At the same time I find myself walking ahead of others because their pace is not working for me.

    We must view our relationship with the Lord as a walk. We have heard the Christian faith paralleled to a race that we must run, and so it is. But there is another, more intimate process we are familiar with and even shown by example. Enoch holds the testimony of having pleased the Lord (Hebrews 11:5) and for such a noble commendation we ask why? We are only told of Enoch that he “walked with God, and he was not, for God took him” (Genesis 5:24). So you mean all he did was walked with the Lord and of that he was found to be pleasing in His sight?

    Yeah that’s exactly what is being said. For it is not all he did, it is everything he did. Daily he walked. It was a process that required great action, initiation and ultimately was the response of the agreement set before him. He came to the Lord in agreement to pace himself accordingly. I know at times that it was a hard pace to endure and at other times it was engaging and full of intimacy. So it is of the saint who says of himself, “I will ‘walk by faith and not by sight’”. It takes a man who has wholeheartedly agreed to walk with the Lord before the day he says “there is nothing on earth I desire besides you” (Psalm 73:25).
  
    I long for that day. I like to think of Enoch and the day the Lord snatched him up. 365 years of walking and surely the walks only grew longer and more intimate. As the Lord took Enoch so will he take his church, that is those that are walking with him. The beauty of this is everyone of us knows how to walk. Maybe you realize you have not been walking with the Lord but you want to. Or maybe you have walked away and deliberately settled at your own pace. Jesus has made known Himself, that He is the way to salvation; and has required of us not only that we would come but that we would continue walking in relationship with him. If this is a turning point for you, the Lord has already agreed to meet you and is faithfully awaiting your approach. Wait no more and turn for “the Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.”