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W ITH THE help of these few, graphic words, how many articles have been written, preached, how many testimonies have been offered, and how many songs have been sung on the thought and theme of separation, and the necessity of a godly walk through this weary, wicked scene! They state little, but tell much. But . . . what about the rest of that verse? Or did you think that these five words constituted the whole of Genesis 5:22? It might be quite surprising to open our Bibles and to read the entire verse, and thus gather the fuller picture which the Lord intends to teach us. “And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.” This is quite a mixture of subjects, particularly if we con trast the opening and closing phrases of this verse: "And Enoch walked with God . . . and begat sons and daughters.” If one raises the ques tion as to what the rearing of sons and daughters has to do with a walk with God, the answer is that It has everything to do with it! For this verse goes a long way in emphasizing the practical reality of the close and surrendered walk with God. Starry-eyed, religious day- dreamers simply do not fit into the picture. Enoch was not an ascetic, a recluse, a "haunter of high mon asteries,” but rather, a common or dinary man with the average home responsibilities. The man who has the job of bringing up a family can not afford to be anything else. Be cause he was common in this sense, because he did bear the ordinary bur dens of life, the value of his close walk with God is thus declared. Methlnks that God was far more in terested in the way that Enoch walked “in the kitchen, and in the living room,” before the sight of his immediate family, where every word and step was weighed and meas ured, than when he chanced to walk alone beneath the Eastern skies with its canopy of stars. It is those or dinary, day-by-day rounds of life and living that stamp the “amen” to the title of “saint,” or give it the tragic lie.
The greatest saints are not those who are shut away from the world, living in Elysian seclusion upon som distant hill-land, for whom every day may be a “Lord’s Day” of rest, and study and meditation, ut terly apart from the cares of the daily round of ordinary living, but rather, they are those men and women who can and will watch unto, and joyously maintain a con sistent, godly walk throughout the “Mondays” of dull affairs at the shop, in the office, out on the road set squarely down in the din and bustle of this jarring world. To walk in white garments through a scene of cloying dirt is indeed the heroism of faith! It is the saint in the ma chine shop who will shine for Je sus, not the saint in the monastery, who might as well have no light for all the good his shining will do! It Is the saint, going through the drudging routine of office papers, who amidst the quick jarrings and flash upsettings, will yet carry on in peace and in quietness, giving a word for Jesus—not the saint who lives in ivory-walled seclusion who may sing as he likes, with nothing to distract the melody. This is the vital business after all. Enoch, together with his walk with God, also “begat sons and daugh ters,” and that begetting framed the tempo of his walking. But for so many the cares of the family con spire to squeeze out the saintliness from many a saint, so that heroical ly they have to force themselves into a pleasant mood when comes church-going time. They will sing pleasantly, and give attention to the sermon, and carry along with a good measure of "Sunday starch" but alas! how quickly the change when the service is over, when the car has pulled into the home driveway, and the family is back at home with it self! But It is just there, at that crucial point, that the holy eye of God Is upon them, matching proces- sion with profession and possession. It may well be that God scarcely gave them a glance while they filled the church pew, for His holy search ing had found far too much at the filling of the breakfast nook. It Is the godly walk set to the common and ordinary round that really counts.
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