Notes of Faith November 10, 2025

Faith and Insight

And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.

Genesis 5:24

Enoch lived 365 years during a time of increasing wickedness on earth, yet he walked with God. Not only did he live a faithful life, but also his life on earth ended in a unique way. The Message paraphrase puts it this way: “Enoch walked steadily with God. And then one day he was simply gone: God took him”

(Genesis 5:24).

Sometimes we feel challenged to walk “steadily” with God for a single day, much less for more than three centuries. But Enoch did. We only have two clues in Scripture as to Enoch’s life. Hebrews 11:5 refers to him as a man of faith, and Jude 14 refers to him as a man of spiritual insight. Jude quotes from the book of Enoch about the coming judgment on the wicked, a well-regarded apocryphal book of Jewish literature from the first century B.C. Jude considered the words of this book to be an accurate prophecy of the future. Though the book was compiled long after Enoch lived, his words must have carried weight in the Jewish community.

Faithfulness and spiritual insight—two traits of Enoch we would do well to imitate in our lives.

Faithfulness to God is our first obligation in all that we are called to do in the service of the Gospel.

Iain H. Murray

None of us should expect to be around for 365 years, but we should strive for faithfulness and spiritual insight for the years that we are given! May God bless you today while you are in His Word, that you hear Him speak and respond with obedience to His commands. Let it be said of us that we walk with God!

Pastor Dale