Devotional

Gen 5:21-24, ENOCH LIVED SIXTY-FIVE YEARS, AND BEGOT METHUSELAH. After he begot Methuselah, ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD THREE HUNDRED YEARS, and had sons and daughters. So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. AND ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD; AND HE WAS NOT, FOR GOD TOOK HIM.

Enoch had an experience with God when he begot Methuselah at 65 years of age! The name Methuselah means, in 1 translation, “HIS DEATH SHALL BRING”. From what I can see is that GOD told Enoch that when his son dies it will bring death to the world by a flood! From that point on HE walked and pleased God for 300 years!

Heb 11:5-6, By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, “AND WAS NOT FOUND, BECAUSE GOD HAD TAKEN HIM”; for before he was taken he had this testimony, THAT HE PLEASED GOD. But WITHOUT FAITH IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE HIM, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who DILIGENTLY SEEK HIM. 

Today, if we want to please GOD in our lives we must walk in faith and not by sight or our own understanding!  HIS WAYS ARE NOT OUR WAYS AND HIS UNDERSTANDING IS NOT OUR UNDERSTANDING! TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART AND HE SHALL DIRECT YOUR PATH!  Prov 3:5-6, 2Cor 5:7, Isaish 55:8-9

SEEK THE LORD FOR HE IS GOOD!

Gen 4:3-5, And in the process of time it came to pass that Cain brought an OFFERING OF THE FRUIT OF THE GROUND TO THE LORD. ABEL ALSO BROUGHT OF THE FIRSTBORN OF HIS FLOCK AND OF THEIR FAT. And the LORD respected Abel and his offering, but He did not respect Cain and his offering…

Heb 11:4, BY FAITH ABEL OFFERED TO GOD A MORE EXCELLENT SACRIFICE THAN CAIN..

1Jn 3:12, not as Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. AND WHY DID HE MURDER HIM? BECAUSE HIS WORKS WERE EVIL AND HIS BROTHER’S RIGHTEOUS. 

Scripture doesn’t say if this was a sin offering, because only the shedding of blood can cover sin! An offering of grain was acceptable “Num 18:12”, Yet Cain didn’t offer it up in faith, but reluctantly! 

Gen 4:7, IF YOU DO WELL, WILL YOU NOT BE ACCEPTED? AND IF YOU DO NOT DO WELL, SIN LIES AT THE DOOR. AND ITS DESIRE IS FOR YOU, BUT YOU SHOULD RULE OVER IT.” 

Some, ignorantly say, “DO WHAT’S IN YOUR HEART” without knowing that our hearts are desperately wicked running for a chance to do evil! But, Scripture says “HE WHO TRUSTS IN HIS OWN HEART IS A FOOL, BUT WHOEVER WALKS WISELY WILL BE DELIVERED”,

PRO 28:26. 

Gen 3:1, NOW THE SERPENT WAS MORE CUNNING than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “HAS GOD INDEED SAID, ‘YOU SHALL NOT EAT OF EVERY TREE OF THE GARDEN’?” 

It’s easy to blame Eve for being deceived yet, would you have been deceived?  Still to this day he has been deceiving people by the millions!

2Co 11:3, But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, SO YOUR MINDS MAY BE CORRUPTED FROM THE SIMPLICITY THAT IS IN CHRIST. 

Satan lied with partial truth’s which is harder to fight than outright lies!  THEREFORE, WE MUST KNOW THE SCRIPTURES TO DEFEND OURSELVES AND OUR FAMILIES!

2Ti 3:16, All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 

Gen 3:15, And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; HE SHALL BRUISE YOUR HEAD, AND YOU SHALL BRUISE HIS HEEL.” 

Gen 3:21, Also for Adam and his wife the LORD GOD MADE tunics of skin, and CLOTHED THEM.

HINTS OF JESUS, THE COMING REDEEMER!

Gen 2:7, And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and BREATHED INTO HIS NOSTRILS THE BREATH OF LIFE; and man became a living being.

With HIS breath HE gave us life and, also a part of HIMSELF! His spirit!

Gen 2:17, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, FOR IN THE DAY THAT YOU EAT OF IT YOU SHALL SURELY DIE.”

They ate of it yet they didn’t die physically, but spiritually that’s why JESUS said that we must be born again! We need to revive that eternal spirit in us! In John 3:9, JESUS spoke with Nicodemus,

it was hard for him (the Pharisee) to understand what JESUS said about being born again!

‘HOW CAN THESE THINGS BE’?? 

Elihu said, Job 32:8, BUT THERE IS A SPIRIT IN MAN, AND THE BREATH OF THE ALMIGHTY GIVES HIM UNDERSTANDING. 

The breath of GOD not only gives life but also understanding. That’s why it was hard for him Nicodemus to understand JESUS, he was a religious man yet, without the spirit of HIM! 

Understanding of the scriptures, of HIM, and ourselves that we are sinners saved by grace!  Without HIS spirit we believe we are good people

Gen 1:1, IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. 

The beginning was the creation of TIME, SPACE, & MATTER as we know it today! Time has no power over it’s Creator, but the Creator can see yesterday, today and tomorrow whenever HE pleases! HE INHABITS ETERNITY, ISAIAH 46:10

Isa 46:10, DECLARING THE END FROM THE BEGINNING, AND FROM ANCIENT TIMES THINGS THAT ARE NOT YET DONE, Saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, And I will do all My pleasure,’ 

Psa 33:9, For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast. 

Gen 1:16, THEN GOD MADE TWO GREAT LIGHTS: THE GREATER LIGHT TO RULE THE DAY, AND THE LESSER LIGHT TO RULE THE NIGHT. HE MADE THE STARS ALSO. 

Psalm 8:3-4, WHEN I CONSIDER YOUR HEAVENS, THE WORK OF YOUR FINGERS, THE MOON AND THE STARS, WHICH YOU HAVE ORDAINED, What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him?

When we consider the work of HIS hands and realize just how small we are in comparison we can only be in awe of HIM!  One verse for the universe and yet spent days creating this world for us! What is man in YOUR eyes? Thank YOU!