The Christian Life

Walk like Enoch

The NET Bible (Second Edition) (Chapter 5)

21 When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah.

22 After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God for 300 years, and he had other sons and daughters.

23 The entire lifetime of Enoch was 365 years.

24 Enoch walked with God, and then he disappeared because God took him away.

“He must increase and I must decrease” (John 3:30).

Praise to the Lord

Paul said it this way: “But we have this treasure [Jesus Christ] in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us” (2 Corinthians 4:7).

Why is it, folks, that we attempt to cover up the “earthenness” of our vessels by painting them, glazing them, shining them, polishing them—and then wonder why nobody’s getting saved?

When the attention is on the earthen vessel and not on the Treasure within, we are doomed to failure in our efforts to draw people to Christ.

The Treasure is to be exalted. The Treasure is to be lifted up. And there is only one Treasure—the Person of Jesus Christ. It’s not “churchianity;” it’s not intellectual study; it’s not pious spirituality

When we can say with transparency to those around us, I am earthen. I am flawed. I have difficulties and struggles and weaknesses and scars and hurts—but there is One who is redemptive. There is One who is perfect. There is One who is all-loving, always available. And I’m going back to Bethlehem to be with Him,” those around us will want to come with us.

Jon Courson, Jon Courson’s Application Commentary: Volume One: Genesis–Job (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2005), 807.

Learn from the Lord

Sculptor Thors Walden chiseled a glorious statue of Jesus Christ. Due to the position of His body, however, it is impossible to see His face. A sign next to the statue says this: If you desire to see His face, you must first sit at His feet. And as you sit at the feet of that sculpture and look up, it is then and only then that you see His face.

Jon Courson, Jon Courson’s Application Commentary: Volume One: Genesis–Job (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2005), 813.

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