ICS Daily Devotions
Walking Together Requires Agreement
Amos 3:3 (NKJV) Can two walk together unless they are agreed?
This Scripture reveals to us that the prerequisite of two people walking together is that there must be agreement between them. Otherwise, they will be walking in different directions or separate ways, not to mention that there will be friction in their relationship. We are sinning if we are not walking in the ways of God.
Genesis 5:21-24 (NKJV) Enoch lived sixty-five years, and begot Methuselah. After he begot Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three hundred years, and had sons and daughters. So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.
We are told that Enoch walked with God. Because it could not have been God coming down to Enoch’s level to agree with him, it must have been Enoch submitting to God as the highest form of worship. Enoch had to come up to God’s level in terms of his thoughts and ways, for God’s thoughts and ways are always higher than ours.
Doubtless, Enoch would have chosen to obey God by offering animal sacrifices for the sins that he had committed as a form of worship of God, because this is the way that God had stipulated for sinners to approach Him after the fall of Adam and Eve. This would have ensured that Enoch’s fellowship with God was unhindered because God is a holy, righteous, and just God.
Similarly, in order for us to walk with God and to have fellowship with Him, we must first agree that the only way to approach God is through the shed blood of Jesus Christ, which has justified us and caused us to stand righteous before God. We are accepted by God and have peace with Him. It has nothing to do with us because Jesus alone has done it. Moreover, we must agree to seek God first and worship Him alone, and we must agree with the values and principles of God. Finally, we must agree to walk in His will, and agree to serve Him with the gifts that He has given us, whether they are natural talents or spiritual gifts.
Enoch did not just walk with God when he was faced with a crisis, but throughout the 300 years of his life. It would mean that Enoch had to keep his eyes on the Lord, the direction that God was heading, the things that God wanted him to do or say, and the matters that God wanted him to deal with. We are to do likewise!
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