Is It Possible to Walk With God?

October 31.

And Enoch walked with God: and he was not;
for God took him.

GENESIS 5, verse 24.


Oh for a closer walk with God,
A calm and heavenly frame;
A light to shine upon the road
That leads me to the Lamb!

W. COWPER.


Is it possible for any of us in these modern
days to so live that we may walk with God?
Can we walk with God in the shop, in the office,
in the household, and on the street? When men
exasperate us, and work wearies us, and the
children fret, and the servants annoy, and our
best-laid plans fall to pieces, and our castles in
the air are dissipated like bubbles that break at
a breath, then can we walk with God? That
religion which fails us in the every-day trials and
experiences of life has somewhere in it a flaw.
It should be more than a plank to sustain us in
the rushing tide, and land us exhausted and
dripping on the other side. It ought, if it come from
above, to be always, day by day, to our souls as
the wings of a bird, bearing us away from and
beyond the impediments which seek to hold us
down. If the Divine Love be a conscious presence,
an indwelling force with us, it will do this.

CHRISTIAN UNION.