Thriller
February 21, 2007
I have been going through a study with the women of Re:Hope by Beth Moore called “Believing God”. This week the homework focused on the hall of faith heroes in Hebrews 11. I found the lesson on Enoch really powerful. While, you get countless stories about the other heroes in your Sunday school classes growing up, there is not usually much mention of Enoch. Why? Probably because there isn’t much material to go off of. The meat of what is said about him “…Enoch walked with God 300 years…” - Genesis 5:22. He is mentioned in Paul’s top 10 (or so) on just this. Yet, what greater testament to a life of faith than to follow close after God your entire life. Here’s some excerpts of what Beth Moore said:
Oh, if only we’d follow and not run ahead or lag behind! Our perceptions have been so distorted by our world system that we fear God’s path may be right and respectable, but it’s sure to be boring. Does that sound like the life described in 1 Corinthians 2:9?
“No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him.”
The only way we will have an earthly experience with God that is more than ears have heard, eyes have seen, and minds have ever imagined is to walk with Him. God has promised never to leave us or forsake us. If we persist in our own way, the Spirit of God will accompany us (see Psalm 139:7-10), but we will walk ourselves right into a place that we may as well call less-than-land, the place of God’s permissive will. When we choose to walk with God rather than off the path to handfuls of other options, we find His perfect will for our lives. We find our promised land.
And later:
Dear One, God created us. He knows what satisfies our souls and fulfills us. Keep in mind that God created work before the fall. He created us with a need to contribute to and participate in the harvest. God could grant us victory and maturity without an ounce of participation on our parts, but He created us to be most satisfied by apprehending through diligent pursuit. Our salvation is a free gift of grace that demanded the work of Christ Jesus alone. God made sure, however, that much of our fulfillment would involve the glorious pursuit of God and His goals so that our souls would be filled and thrilled in the constant discoveries. When all is said and done, He knows what will thrill us most.
When my time on this earth is over, may the testimony of my life be “she walked with God”. I am ready for the thrill ride.
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