Walking in agreement

Yesterday as we looked at the life of Enoch we saw that he walked with God for 300 years in habitual fellowship.  Walking together for any length of time with anyone requires quite a level of agreement.  In Amos chapter 3 it says, ‘do two walk together unless they have agreed to do so?’ Walking together requires agreement on where we are walking and the pace we are walking at.  We cannot walk together in two different directions nor can we walk together at two different speeds.

If we are to walk with God for 300 days, let alone 300 years it will require an agreement on our part to walk with God and this will mean at his pace and in His direction.  God actually knows what is best for us and contrary to what a lot of people think, God will not ask us to do or go anywhere that is not good for us.  God is not waiting for us to agree to let him have his way in our life, so he can get us to do something horrible that we will hate.  We wouldn’t do that to our children so why would God want to do that to us? 

However, the best prayer we can say is to echo Jesus’ words in the garden of Gethsemane, ‘yet not my will but yours be done’.  God’s will for our life is good, pleasing and perfect according to Paul in Romans.  The more we can get our reluctant hearts to agree to that, the closer our walk with God will be.