Enoch walked with God and “was not; for God took him” (Gen. 5:24). Being taken will be repeated at the rapture for those of us [believers] who are “alive and remain” (1 Thess. 4:15,17). This is a certainty. May it also be said that we walked with our God too.
There is something so wonderful about that expression. It isn’t the same as if it said God walked with Enoch. No, rather it is, “Enoch walked with God.” It was said by Jacob when he returned to Beth-el, “God . . . was with me in the way which I went” (Gen. 35:3). This refers to those days when Jacob was away from Beth-el, scheming his way through life.
So it is true of us. The Lord will never leave us or forsake us. But that is quite different from our walking with Him. The Lord God came down to walk in the garden, but man hid himself because of sin. May we judge ourselves and value, above all else, the privilege we now have to walk with Him. It is His desire who has called us unto fellowship—with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.
H. Short