p. 192 | How to be like Enoch

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 3, 1859

How to be like Enoch.

Do you seek Enoch's introduction to the living God? Go to him, as Enoch went, believing that he is, and he is accessible [Heb. xi, 6], and seek to get into the same just and realizing knowledge of him that Enoch got. He is revealed to you more amply, perhaps, than he was to Enoch. Believe. Believe that he is not far off, but nigh. Believe that he is not hostile, but propitious. Believe that he is all that Jesus said—that he is all that Jesus was—and believing this, walk with him. Admit him into your home, that he may bless it. Admit him into your hourly occupations, that he may elevate and expedite them; admit him into your happy moments, that he may enhance them; and into your hours of anguish, that his presence may tranquilize and transform them. Let his recollected presence be the brightness of every landscape—the zest of every pleasure—the energy of every undertaking—the refuge from every danger—the solace in every sorrow—the asylum of your hidden life, and the constant Sabbath of your soul. Learn, with all reverence for his greatness, but with equal reliance on his goodness—learn to make the eye that never slumbers, the companion of your nights and mornings; and the ear that never wearies, make it the confidant of your weakness, your solitude, your ecstasy and woe. Learn to have not one life for God, and another for the world; but let your life be divinely devoted, and divinely quickened; let every footstep be a walk with God.—Dr. Hamilton.