That is what you do as a Christian man or woman. When you come to Christ, you choose God to be your companion and your guide throughout life’s journey. Do you keep that up? Do you trust in Calvary? You believe you are saved. You love him, you love the truth. But are you a companion of God throughout every day? Do you walk with him, in touch with him intimately, drawing on his help and power and strength? Do you seek his will at every crossroad, in every fork of life? Do you make yourself available to him and ask him to guide your thinking and to help your planning, desiring to do the thing which will enable you to serve him and please him? Would you make rash decisions, major decisions decide what you want to be, where you want to settle, on the basis of what I like, what will pay well, what will certainly serve your best interests? Or do you say, ‘What does God require? Oh Lord guide my thinking help me to do the thing which is right, help me to balance spiritual priorities and do those things which would enable me to serve thee’? If I find myself getting carried away by secular earthly interests to the extent that they diminish my spiritual interests, I will back off and leave them alone.
Of course he had saving faith. He believed that only the mercy of God could save him. He had no merit, no goodness in himself to earn heaven. He believed doubtless in an atonement. He also believed in the power of God to keep him in righteousness, and every time he was confronted by temptation or sin he prayed to God for help. Our communion with God is a walk. If you walk with somebody, you talk together and you listen to the person you are walking with. You walk: you are able to take in your surroundings as you go, and walking is a calm business, it is a calm process to walk with God.
When Enoch had preached a sermon to people around and told them about sin and justice and God coming in judgement one day, he would infuriate many and no doubt they would take action against him. But he was unruffled, he wouldn’t have been a man who panicked, because he walked with God. That is the Christian life too: it is a walk with God we do not panic when we are confronted by trials and griefs and troubles. We pray we are walking with him it is a calm and unruffled business.
Of course, I’m going to listen to his voice. I am going to read my Bible every day: I am listening to him; I am walking with him. I shall learn some texts, and I shall remind myself of them through my working day. I will tell him all my troubles, and my needs, calmly, faithfully never in a complaining spirit. I should relate everything to him, for help and strength. Every day I will ask him for service, something that I can do to bless me even with that privilege of being used for someone's salvation. How do you respond to difficult situations to aggravation to insult to provocation? When the disciples accompanied the Lord, and they went into Samaria on one occasion. The people of Samaria rejected Christ; they wouldn't listen to him, and the disciples could see the insult to the Lord. Here was the Lord of glory, the Saviour of the world and these foolish and insulting people would not even listen to him. So one of the disciples said, ‘Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did’ (Luke 9:54), and the Lord rebuked them: ‘Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.’