Will You Answer the Call of the World…or Steal Away with God?

Posted on May 25, 2017 Topic : Inspirational/Devotional, Women's Christian Living

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

Enoch, the seventh generation born from Adam, had an extraordinary relationship with God, a deep intimacy, and a reputation that brought pleasure to the heart of the Father. For this he was rewarded by escaping the sting of death (Hebrews 11:5). Picture his disappearance through the eyes of his wife…

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“He’s out again, is he?” the visitor asked. Enoch’s wife nodded her head in reply as she stirred the evening meal over the fire.

“Where is it exactly that he goes?” questioned his friend, brows drawn together in perplexed punctuation. This was the third time he had tried to visit Enoch this week, only to find that he was nowhere to be found.

“Wherever their conversation takes him,” Enoch’s wife serenely answered. She had grown used to these times. They did not frighten or disturb her. She only had to look into Enoch’s eyes when he returned to know where he had been.

Sometimes he was gone for an hour. Sometimes for days. And when he returned, his body weary but his eyes gleaming with a brilliant fire that burned from within, she knew he had been with God.

Amazingly, no one ridiculed Enoch. Rather, they respectfully conceded that he truly was a man who sought God diligently. All who knew him admired this, and even promised themselves that they, too, would draw closer to God as soon as they got a little extra time on their hands.

When her visitor left, Enoch’s wife prepared dinner and waited for his return. Slowly the night settled down around her, and eventually the embers of the dinner fire died. The air around her held a tension she did not recognize, and she wondered what was different about this night.

Then a voice, or perhaps it was just a quiet understanding, rose from within her spirit. “He won’t be back,” it whispered softly. She contemplated these words, quietly releasing her beloved husband into the hands of his Lord as she fell into a peaceful sleep.

In the following days, as people inquired when Enoch would return, they wondered at his wife’s serenity in the face of such deeply disturbing circumstances.

“Poor dear,” they all thought as they saw her set out, beginning the familiar pattern of her late husband. “Perhaps she will find him in one of her walks.” Little did they know it was not Enoch for whom she was seeking.

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Though this is the type of relationship we have the best of intentions to achieve, so many things distract us away from communing with God. And yet the only way to be translated to a place far above our circumstances is to immerse ourselves in Him.

Dear Heavenly Father, please forgive me for answering the call of the world instead of stealing away with You. Although I know I was created for Your good pleasure, I spend far too much time seeking pleasures of my own. Help me to realize that my greatest reward at the end of the day is You and the power You possess to translate me above all that binds me.
In Jesus’ name, amen.