Walk With God

by Skip Heitzig | July 19, 2024

Hebrews 11:5 contains this statement: "By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, 'and was not found, because God had taken him'; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God." He pleased God is the summary statement of Enoch's life. It would have been the epitaph on his tombstone if he'd had one.

Genesis 5:24 says, "Enoch walked with God." The two statements are one and the same. To walk with God is to please God. In the Septuagint, a Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament, the phrase He walked with God is translated as He pleased God. To the translators, to walk with God is to please God.

It's exciting that Old Testament spirituality, in its earliest years, was just walking with God, hanging out with God, being in daily intimate communion with Him. Genesis 6:9 says, "Noah walked with God." And Genesis 17:1 says, "The LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, 'I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless.'"

It's the essence of what a relationship with God is. To relate with God, to please God, is to walk with God. It's that simple. A walk with God is different from a chat with God or a weekly visit with God. A walk with God is consistent, daily. When you walk with Him, you let Him in on everything. You're always in His presence. It's not like a radio playing in the background. You're part of the tune.

So, what about you? Are you walking with God? Are you living to please Him? Would that be your legacy—that you are pleasing Him? Because you have to realize that God does not exist to serve you. The universe is not some cosmic playground where you've been placed to discover your uniqueness and who you are.

No. You're here to find out who God is, and to live to glorify Him. And that's when you find out who you are and what He can do through you. Revelation 4:11 sums it up, "You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and by Your will they exist and were created."

Jesus said, "I always do those things that please Him" (John 8:29). Paul said in 2 Corinthians 5:9, "We make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him." It is the irreducible minimum.

When pleasing God becomes the determining factor for the decisions in your life, everything else is easy. Everything should be held to this standard: What would God have me do? What is the Lord's will in this?

Remember what Jesus said? "Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you" (Matthew 6:33). All you have to do is seek His kingdom, look for His glory, live to please Him, walk with Him. And the rest will just fall into place.

It's that simple. Live to please Him, walk with Him. George Mueller said, "Nine-tenths of the difficulties are overcome when our hearts are ready to do the Lord's will, whatever it may be." This should be the disposition of our hearts: "Lord, I don't exactly know what Your will is, but whatever I discover it to be, that I'm going to do."

So, let it be that simple. Walk with Him. Live to please Him.

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