walking with the King of kings. By Charles Spurgeon.

Genesis chapter 5 verse 24. Enoch walked with God. A man who walks with God will necessarily grow in grace and in the knowledge of God and in likeness to Jesus. You cannot suppose a perpetual walk with God year after year without the favored person being strengthened, sanctified, instructed, and rendered more able to glorify God.

When we read that Enoch walked with God, we are to understand that he realized God's presence. Enoch's faith was a realizing faith. He did not believe things as a matter of creed and then put them up on the shelf out of the way, as most do. He was not merely orthodox in head, but the truth had entered into his heart, and what he believed was true to him. Practically true. True as a matter of fact in his daily life.

Enoch walked with God, It was not that he merely thought of God, or that he speculated about God, or that he read about God, or that he talked about God. Enoch walked with God, which is the practical and experimental part of true godliness. In his daily life, Enoch realized that God was with him, and he regarded God as a living friend in whom he confided and by whom he was loved. This is the very flower and sweetness of Christian experience. If you would taste the cream of Christian life, it is found in having a realizing faith and entering into intimate fellowship with the Heavenly Father.

Enoch did not commune with God by fits and starts, but he abode in the conscious love of God. He did not now and then climb to the heights of elevated piety. and then descend into the marshy valley of lukewarmness. He continued in the calm enjoyment of fellowship with God from day to day.

Enoch's life must also have been a holy life because he walked with the Holy God. If we are to walk with God, then we must walk according to truth, justice, and love. The Lord keeps no company with the wicked. So we know that Enoch, who walked with God, must have been an upright and holy man.

Enoch's life must, moreover, have been a happy one. Who could be unhappy with such a companion? With God himself with us, the way can never be dreary. Since God was his companion, then Enoch's life must have been a way of pleasantness and a path of peace.

And oh, what an honorable thing it is to walk with the Eternal! Many a man would give thousands to walk with a king. Numbers of people are such worshippers of dignities, that if a king did but smile at them, they would be intoxicated with delight. What, then, is the honor of walking with the King of kings? How ennobling it was for Enoch to be enabled to be the king's companion, to walk alone with him and to be his familiar friend.

No life can surpass that of a man who quietly continues to walk faithfully with God in the place where providence has placed him.