WALKING IN CLOSE FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD
22 AFTER THE BIRTH OF METHUSELAH, ENOCH LIVED IN CLOSE FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD FOR ANOTHER 300 YEARS, AND HE HAD OTHER SONS AND DAUGHTERS.
23 Enoch lived 365 years,
24 WALKING IN CLOSE FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD. THEN ONE DAY HE DISAPPEARED, BECAUSE GOD TOOK HIM."
Genesis 5:22-24 (NLT)
Enoch did experience and enjoy a close fellowship with God throughout his life time.
In your own relationship with God as well, He wants you to walk in a close fellowship with Him in your Christian journey.
Though Enoch's life span was shorter compared with others in his time, but he did not taste death.
Your life would be meaningful when you walk with God as you ought to.
What does it mean to walk in close fellowship with God?
• To walk in close fellowship with God means; to study His Word, apply the Word, that is, live in line with it, and be at the centre of His Will for your life.
• A person walking with God in a close fellowship would want to know His Will in every step they wanted to take.
• Walking with God get started with giving your life to Christ Jesus, that is, accepting and acknowledging Jesus as your Lord and Saviour (Romans 10:9,10).
In summation, you walk with Him in fellowship by studying His Word, the Bible; living the Word, being a practicer or doer of the Word; praying to know His Will on every matter; and being a person who has the willingness or readiness to do whatever is commanded by God.
Walking with God is not about rigidity—regimentally following some laws, rules or commands, of the Bible—so to speak.
It is about communion or fellowship, having a rapport with God. It is about intimacy, not about following a slavish rules or devotions.
Christianity or being a disciple of Christ or a believer in Him is primarily about walking with God. It was never meant to be laws set up by God that has to be observed or strictly followed.
This is where being a disciple of Christ or a believer in Him is different from the practice of old testament religion pattern—Judaism.
We are not called to rigidly observe laws per se but to relate and fellowship with God. When it comes to fellowshipping with God, It is what is done in a relaxed, calming or nerveless, mood; having understanding of God and oneness with Him.
It is not what is being done under duress or being forced to do or obey some rules rigidly. It is about willing submissiveness. What is done willingly and convincingly. Not that you are cajole or coerced into the doing.
God wants the relationship of Him with every believer to be thus, that is, as It is explained here.
This was the type of relationship and fellowship that Enoch had with God and was eventually taken to heaven without the need to taste death (Genesis 5:23,24).
Walking with God can be exciting and refreshing If the person understands God. However, the process of understanding God is the major task, and that is the essence of studying the Bible to learn about it.
Relating with God could have not been hard If the flesh, the adamic nature, was not recalcitrant or resistant. The flesh being rebellious, unsubmissive and self-willed always wants man to resist God's Will or bidden.
Albeit, If you as a believer could get to know what God wanted or expected of you, the relationship and fellowship with Him can be refreshing and rewarding and fulfilling.
Thus, the primary assignment of a believer should be about learning how to walk with God. When this learning gets to equilibrium, a state of balance or steadiness, where God is well understood, and you know what He does want and not; then, the relationship becomes enjoyable—rewarding and fulfilling.
God is not a tyrant, waiting for those who are relating with Him to commit a blunder and uses that to give them a smack or hard strike. No, He is a loving and caring Father and God.
You will not fail in Jesus' name.
• Should there be any ailment in your body, receive your healing now in Jesus' name.
Peace!
STEPS TO SALVATION
• Take notice of this:
IF you are yet to take the step of salvation, that is, yet to be born-again, do it now, tomorrow might be too late (2 Corinthians 6:1,2; Hebrews 3:7,8,15).
a. Acknowledge that you are a sinner and confess your Sins (1 John 1:9); And ask Jesus Christ to come into your life (Revelation 3:20).
b. Confess that you believe in your heart that Jesus Christ is Lord, and that you confess it with your mouth, thus, you accept Him As your Lord and Saviour (Romans 10:9,10).
c. As you took the steps A and B your name is written in the Book of Life (Philippians 4:3; Revelation 3:8).
If you took the steps As highlighted above, congratulations, It means you are saved—born-again. Join a Word based church in your area and Town or city, and be part of whatever they are doing there. Peace!