# 73 Walking With God

The Book of Genesis Day 73 Ge 6:9 This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God. Enoch walked with God, and now we read of a man named Noah who also “walked with God.” Let us reflect today on God’s response to their choice to walk with Him. God took Enoch out of this world, away from all of the evil, but Noah was left behind while God removed all the evil troublemakers from around him. In either case, both men were separated from the world. Enoch got the free ride to heaven and Noah got to float on a boat, above all the evil of this world. These two men were chosen to be separated from the world because they had opted to “walk with God.” They did things His way and not the way of the world. We receive the same admonition in 2Co 6:17,18, “Therefore "Come out from among them And be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, And I will receive you." 18 "I will be a Father to you, And you shall be My sons and daughters, Says the LORD Almighty." And in Ro 12:2 “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” In addition, one of the conditions that James sets forth for pure religion is found in Jas 1:27, “Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.” He is even more to the point in Jas 4:4, “Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.” Then there’s 1Jo 2:15, “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” But how do we do this? How do we overcome the pull of the world? 1Jo 5:4 says, “For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world--our faith.” Faith in God is what Enoch and Noah had going for them. They were of that righteous line of Seth that remembered the promise of a Savior. They believed it, and God accounted it to them as righteousness. That’s what it is to “walk with God!” Exercise faith, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you too shall be delivered. You too shall overcome the world and walk with God! Reflect: Talk about a valued piece of clothing that was ruined by a stain. What kind of things do you do to protect your valued clothing from stains? What’s the best way you have found for removing stains? It has been said that Christians should be “in the world, but not of the world.” What does that mean to you. How do Christians remove “spiritual stains? Pray: Lord, grant us the faith of Enoch and Noah, give us the resolve to choose You and Your ways rather than the ways of the world, and remove the stains when we fail.