Enoch

Bishop Q's blog made me think of Enoch.

“Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.”

I have sat and wondered what kind of prayer habbits he may have had. I have wondered about the discipline it would take to be good enough, or disciplined enough to be caught away. To simply avoid death all together and to cross over the barrier to God.

But then...

I don't think it was a matter of discipline, but rather a matter of relationship.

When I fell in love with my wife, I didn't set out to form a habbit of disciplines in order to fall in love with her. Love swept me off my feet when we spent time together. The relationship carried me, and swept me into the habbits of spending every waking hour I could with her. Then as the relationship grew and matured, I payed attention to hang on to those things that keep our love alive.

I think this has much to do with Enoch's relationship with God. He let himself get so swept with God, that it wasn't anything for God to take him away. God loved spending time with Enoch just as much as Enoch loved spending time with him.

Too many times I have been caught up with trying to impliment disciplines in order to get my life right. For example: Read extra, pray longer, find more devotionals, ...... When what really got me on track was to simply and honestly seek a relationship. To be open and honest with the time I spent with Him. I didn't focus on the discipline, but I focused on the prayer, “God, I just want to know you! I want to be your friend.” .... and all those other things fell into place as God's miraculous power changed my life little by little.

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