A LESSON FROM ENOCH; THE PRACTICE OF GOD'S PRESENCE



Last time about Enoch, we checked on his example to this last generation. So here today we are going talk about the practice of God's presence. When we practice the presence of God, then the taste of this life becomes more meaningless. According to this marvelous picture of  Enoch we can see that he was a silence-solitude kind of guy. What do I mean by that? You see, God loves silence, He loves quietness and  He will always speak to us when everything around is calm; when the volume of the world is reduced; when everything is silent.  Timely silence is important,  Jesus painted us the wonderful picture on the importance of silence and solitude. He could be seen regularly  separating from the congregation and even from His disciples into the desert or mount olives, to pray to the Father. “And he often withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.” Luke 5:16 The same was true  with Moses the man of God, he separated for 40 days and often whenever he sought God in the tent of the Lord’s presence. John the Baptist separated and was in the wilderness, Jonah was separated for Three Good days. One man called A.W Trozer once said, “If a man wants to be used by God, he cannot  spend all of his time with people.”
As we learnt earlier about Enoch walking with God arm in arm, up and down, in and out, we essentially see that Enoch, engaged in a religious life only for the love of God and endeavoured to act only for Him. He was determined to act purely only for the love of God. He never cared about the mockers, he was steadfast in his commitment. He was interested in what was and is real. He knew that God had no doctrine, He was not an admirer but a follower of Christ Jesus. Enoch knew who God was. He had no interest in knowing about God but rather  to know God Himself; to have a close and  a personal relationship with God. This kind of personal relationship will enable me and you as the  remnants, to know God’s standards that are holy and perfect and are diametrically opposed to the self-righteousness, self-sufficient, and hypocritical standards of man-typified those of the scribes and Pharisees.
The epitome to self-realization is silence and solitude, it is the essence of inwardness and the power to inner life. Whoever has truly met God will be more focused on the inner self and will be a where of his own faults and do away with the inward sins. Take a look at Isaiah the prophet, in Isaiah chapters 1,2,3,4 and 5 we Isaiah crying out  unto the people. He says, “woe unto you…woe unto you.”  But when He saw the Lord in the temple, he said, “Woe is me” Isaiah 6:5.

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