Genesis 5:21-24

Happy Wednesday, y'all!

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Genesis 5:21-24

When Enoch had lived 65 years, he fathered Methuselah. Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah 300 years and had other sons and daughters. Thus all the days of Enoch were 365 years. Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.

 

Enoch has always been one of my favorite Bible characters; odd, perhaps, since these four verses and a brief mention in Hebrews 11 are all there is about him. But somehow, they tell the whole story. He walked with God! Here's what's a bit interesting: Enoch's father, Jared, lived 962 years. He is the second longest living person recorded in the Bible. Enoch's son, Methuselah, lived 969 years, making him the longest living person recorded in the Bible. Enoch, sandwiched between the two, lived a mere 365 years--it sounds really long to us, but he's got the shortest lifespan in several generations (until Genesis 11, four generations past Noah). So my point? Life does not have to be long to be full and complete. In America today we are a society that is obsessed with finding new methods and medicines for prolonging life (well, except for the lives of unborn children!). I want to seek after something better: a full life, a life centered on Jesus Christ, that it might one day be said of me "she walked with God."

 

"God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you, Lord Jesus." (Jim Elliot)

 

May the Lord bless you richly as you seek after a life made full and complete by Him alone!

 

Dancing in the rain,
Haley "SunShine" Miller
"Exhort one another daily while it is called 'Today'" (Hebrews 3:13)
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