eternal companionship. "Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because
becomes like God. If we walk with God, more and more will His beauty illumine and reflect itself in our lives. Moses' very face shone as he came down from the forty days and forty nights of conversation with God. So will our whole life soon shine with a heavenly glow and glory if we habitually walk with God. "And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory" (2 Corinthians 3:18).
6. The next result of walking with God will be eminent usefulness.
Our lives may be quiet and even obscure; it may be impossible to point to what men call great achievement, but the highest usefulness lies not in such things but in the silent, almost unnoticed but potent and pervasive influence of a holy life, whose light illumines, whose beauty compliments, and whose nobility elevates all who come in contact with it. Enoch has produced immeasurably more good for man than Nebuchadnezzar, who built the marvelous structures of Babylon, than Augustus who "found Rome brick and left it marble," than the Egyptian monarchs who built the pyramids to amaze and mystify the world for thousands of years to come; and today the man or woman, no matter how humble or obscure, who walks with God is accomplishing more for God and man than Morse with his telegraph, Fulton with his steamboat, Stevenson with his locomotive, Cyrus Field with his Atlantic cable, Roebling with his marvelous bridges, Marconi with his wireless telegraphy and telephony, Edison and Tesla with their electric and electrifying discoveries, or any of the renowned political reformers of the day, with all their futile schemes for turning this world into a terrestrial paradise. Friends, if you wish to be really, permanently, eternally useful, walk with God.
7. But there is a still better result than this from walking with God--we please God. Before his translation Enoch had this testimony borne to him, that he "was commended as one who pleased God" (Hebrews 11:5). This is more than being useful. God wants our company, God wants us to walk with Him, and He is well pleased when we do. God is more concerned that we walk with Him than that we work for Him. Martha was taken up with her service for her Lord, but Mary was taken up with her Lord Himself, and He testified that Mary had chosen the better part. It is quite possible today to be so occupied with our work for God that we forget Him for whom we work. If we would please Him, we should first see to it that we walk with him.
8. There is one result of walking with God still left to be mentioned, that is, God's eternal companionship. "Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him away." The man who walks on earth with God, God will sooner or later take to be with Himself forever. "Whoever serves me," says Christ, "must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be." If we do not walk with God on earth, we are not likely to live with God in heaven. If we do not care to