[Discoveries] 02-20-08 Walking with God -- Genesis 5:22

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/*And after he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 
300 years and had other sons and daughters. -- Genesis 5:22*/

I've often wondered about the time from Adam to Noah. What was life 
like? Think about it. In our world, it takes 1-15 years to become 
proficient at a profession. To take out 15 years, for example, to become 
a neurosurgeon, you are committed to that path probably for life. But if 
you live to be 800 years old, you could learn to be a surgeon, a 
plumber, an attorney, a writer, an architect -- whatever -- you could be 
all of those things. And if childbearing years stretched into the 
centuries, a couple might have over a hundred children. You can see why 
it says that people built cities. They needed cities to contain the tens 
of thousands of descendants they would see during their own lifetime. We 
think of this time as being primitive, but we don't know that. It may 
very well have been more advanced in many technologies than we are now.

In the middle of these centuries, a pivotal figure emerges. Enoch, the 
seventh from Adam. He may have had a hundred children. He may have been 
a surgeon, an attorney, a prophet, an architect, and who knows what all 
else rolled up into one. But one thing mattered above everything else: 
He walked with God.

This is one thing I appreciate about our Father in heaven. There are 
many things that may be beyond the reach of most of us. But God makes 
the thing that matters most easy to find. He put it on the lower shelf 
so all of us can reach it. He opens the door, holds out His hand and 
says, "Let's take a walk."

Be encouraged!
Dwight

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