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Faith.

Enoch "walked with God."

And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him (Genesis 5:24).

We believe that walking with God in those days was the same as walking with God today. Hebrews 11:5 is not saying that Enoch exercised faith for translation and therefore God took him. Rather it was true that Enoch’s persistent walk with God pleased God to the extent that God removed him from the earth.

To walk with God is to be aware of God’s Presence all day long; to look to God for every decision; to seek God’s help with every problem. God is to be in all our thoughts, and we are to pray without ceasing.

We do not begin our discipleship with this kind of spiritual strength. But if we have a heart for God, after a number of years have passed we discover that we are able to be filled with thoughts of God all day long. We walk with God.

True faith brings us to a perfect walk with God. False faith is an attempt to wring something from God by making ourselves believe one thing or another. We hope to use God as a source of magical power.

God is more skillful in playing games than we are. If we seek to use God, to manipulate God for our own ends, we will discover that we have become as barren and dry as any desert.

People today are attempting to use God for their own purposes. They hope to discover spiritual formulas that will enable them to live a better life. Men have become lovers of themselves.

The true saints see through the contemporary error. They choose instead to put their hand in the hand of God as a loving child. They learn to trust their Father. As they walk with Him their faith in His goodness pleases Him. 
These are the heirs of the Kingdom that God has promised to those who love Him.


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