Morning by Morning, November 10, 2026 — “Enoch Walked with God” and So Can We
Good morning, Lord Jesus. I thank You that Your heavens are always opened over me and Your Spirit is always here within me. ...
“And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him” (Genesis 5:24).
Enoch was a man of flesh and blood like us. But there was something about his deeply personal relationship with You that allowed him to transcend the barriers of this earthly realm. Your Word speaks of his journey of faith, so deeply intimate with You that “he did not see death” and that “before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God” (Hebrews 11:5).
Lord, I want to have a testimony that I pleased You. I want to have a testimony that I walked with You. Enoch was just a human being, just like me. And Your Word extends the same invitation to every one of us: “Draw near to God and He will draw near to you” (James 4:8). “You will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. I will be found by you, says the Lord” (Jeremiah 29:13-14).
We all know Enoch as one of the two people in the Bible who never died, along with Elijah. They were both taken up to heaven before tasting of death on this earth. In that sense they were both forerunners, prophetically foreshadowing a generation You spoke of who “shall not taste death till they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom” (Matthew 16:28; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17).
But that’s maybe not the most important part of Enoch’s testimony at all. As amazing as that is, there's more to the story and maybe more of a point to the story than the fact that somebody left this earth without ever dying a physical death. There's also something deeply significant here about drawing us into a deeper intimacy with You in trusting faith and a daily spiritual journey that deeply pleases You and opens the heavens to us.
Enoch lived out his faith before the coming of the New Covenant we have now in Christ. Now, we live out our faith under “a better Covenant, which was established with better promises” (Hebrews 8:6). Now, in our generation, we can not only walk with You, we can abide in You as You in us (John 15:4). Now, our hearts can be Your home, our bodies can be the temples of Your Spirit, as our human spirits live in constant communion with Your Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:19; Romans 8:9). “He who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him” (1 Corinthians 6:17). These better promises are part of “the riches of the glory of this mystery … which is Christ in (us), the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27). And it’s in You that we can “live and move and have (our) being” (Acts 17:28).
In this way, I don't need to be longing for something Enoch had. Instead, I should be celebrating every day, grateful to You every day for the depth of intimacy and communion we can have in You today which is infinitely greater than anything Enoch could even ask or imagine. Through the New Covenant in Your blood, “God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace (we) have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus” (Ephesians 2:4-6).
Enoch had to wait three hundred and sixty-five years to be taken up out of this earthly realm into Your heavenly realm (Genesis 5:23). But I can be taken up into that same heavenly realm with You right now!
In that sense, in the mystery of faith—in the spiritual realm of Your heavenly, eternal dimension that’s hard to fully grasp—I'm already taken up, I'm already seated with You, I'm already eternally in Your presence, as I abide in You and You abide in me (John 15:4; Ephesians 2:4-6). In that sense, in that realm of my reality in Christ, I'm already dead to this world and fully alive in You. “The world has been crucified to me, and I to the world” (Galatians 6:14). “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me" (Galatians 2:20).
Father God, give me grace to grow into this depth of intimacy with You that You've made possible for me and every one of Your sons and daughters of God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Teach me how to come up higher, to live up higher, to believe that You've already taken me up higher so that I can daily live from that heavenly place up higher in You.
Like Enoch, I can spend my lifetime, even all eternity, growing into the fullness of Your grace and all You've done for me in Your love! But for today, I'm choosing to “walk with God” in Your heavenly realm as best as I can and all by Your grace. Like Enoch, may this become my testimony, to be known as one who pleases You and walks with You by faith. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Be encouraged this day. In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays
My friend, may you walk with God every day, living in constant communion with Him in the depth of intimacy we have through Jesus Christ our Lord and His ever-abiding Holy Spirit living in us, in Jesus' name. God bless you, my friend! And you have a great day!
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