the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
John Gossner's Treasury
And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. Genesis 5:24. Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. Genesis 6:9. Moses endured, as seeing him who is invisible. Hebrews 11:27.
"To walk with God" means to lead a godly life, to walk in the presence of God, in His power and grace, to be in fellowship with Him, to partake of His influence, His nearness, His peace, and to let our heart live therein. Thus lived these progenitors. They were temples of the living God. The Lord was all to their hearts. The love of God was poured out into their hearts by the Holy Ghost. God was in them and they were in God. They were so closely united with Him by the bond of love that nothing on earth could separate them from Him. This is the living faith that holds fast to God, the invisible, as if it saw Him bodily, as if He stood before us. That Christ who was to come was just as near to them in faith as if He had been visibly present. Shall not Christ, who has been on earth visibly, and who remains here invisibly alway even unto the end, be as near to us in faith as if He were visibly present to us? Yes, certainly; and not that alone, but the spiritual presence of the Lord should be infinitely more real to us than His bodily presence. In our heart He is much closer than if He stood before us physically. He who is not more blessed by faith in Him who is invisible than he would be if he could see the visible Christ, has not such a faith as the Lord would have (John 20:29).
O Jesus, ever with us stay!
Make all our moments calm and bright;
Chase the dark night of sin away,
Shed o’er the world Thy holy light.
