WALKING WITH GOD

Genesis 5: 18 – 24

18 When Jared had lived 162 years, he became the father of Enoch.
19 And after he became the father of Enoch, Jared lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.
20 Altogether, Jared lived 962 years, and then he died.
21 When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah.
22 And after he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.
23 Altogether, Enoch lived 365 years.
24 Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.

I love those little tidbits that God put in the Bible where out of nowhere, while I'm just trying to get through some genealogy, up pops something with great significance that I had previously missed.
The first time that happened was with the prayer of Jabez, and I thought; “ Wow isn't that cool”.
To me, there is great wisdom throughout the Bible, but these little biographies are like finding “Easter eggs” filled with goodies.
Time after time we are heard to proclaim, state, or otherwise say, that we walk with God. Or, that we are working on our walk. Even that we are walking our walk. But, what does that mean?
Webster's says that walk comes from the old English meaning; to roll, toss, knead (as in bread), or move about. To move about in a visible form. To move along by foot.
To pursue a course of action, or way of life.

Now there's some stuff we can work with!

Walking isn't just a form of exercise or the ability to move about. That whole tossing, rolling, and kneading thing sounds like the “sparks are going to fly” Iron sharpens Iron theory. While trying to get ourselves into relationship with God, we are going to suffer our bumps and bruises along the way.
So to be said to be walking with God, as Enoch was, must have meant that he stuck out like a sore thumb among the people of that time. And the fact that before and after Enoch's biography people were recorded as dieing at the end of their lives, while he was said to be taken away by God, and was no more, is kind of significant in a scary good kind of way. So much so that He was singled out for his faith in God.
Wouldn't it be nice if it was said of us that we walk with God, by the people who witness us in our daily lives?