Genesis 5 ~ Praying God's Word

Please read Genesis 5.

Meditate on verse 24a.

Enoch walked with God…

Chapter 5 is the second recorded genealogy in Genesis. The first is in Genesis 1-2:3, the genealogy of creation. Readers of God’s Word are often tempted to skip genealogy chapters; however, treasure verses are left undiscovered when they do.

Genesis 5:24 is the story of one of my favorite Bible heroes, Enoch. It contains the words I would like to be worthy of having inscribed on my tombstone: She walked with God.

Walked carries within it the idea of one’s continual behavior and existence. Enoch walked with God. He lived life with God.

Enoch began walking with God when he was 65 years old, after he became the father of Methuselah (Genesis 5:21-22). From that point, walking with God was the beginning and the end of his story. No other detail was needed except the fact that Enoch so lived with God that his sentence in the genealogy does not end with “and he died” like every other man listed in the chapter. “Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him” (Genesis 5:24).

It was as if God and Enoch were walking together, and the day came when God said, “You know, Enoch, today we really are closer to My house than yours; let’s go spend the rest of eternity there.”

Think about your life. How do people describe you? Would they describe you as walking with God?

Pray Genesis 5:24 over yourself and those for whom you stand guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

“God, let ________ and me walk with You!

In Your name, Jesus~”

The WATCHMAN on the WALL ~ Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell