When the Philistines seized David in Gath, he wrote:

You count my wanderings.
You put my tears into your container.
Aren’t they in your book?
Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call.
I know this: that God is for me.
In God, I will praise his word.
In Yahweh, I will praise his word.
I have put my trust in God.
I will not be afraid.
What can man do to me?

I was reminded of a morning in the hospital, getting chemo for leukemia. God had done something amazing for me, which happened a lot during my leukemia trek, and I was giving him thanks, marveling at the attention he showed me. I felt the Lord speak, in seeming frustration, “What will it take for you to believe I am for you?”

I told my wife about this, and she told me about a story she read in a book. A man was praying one morning, and he felt God wanted him to go out to his hot tub. Despite not being sure this was really the Lord’s leading, he went. As he sat in the hot tub, wondering why he was there, God asked him why he bought the hot tub.

I’m guessing that he was wondering whether God wanted him to get rid of it. He had bought it partly for health reasons and partly for the sheer enjoyment of it. God said, “How you feel in this hot tub is how I want to be with you. I want to enjoy you and spend time with you.”

We need to be reminded that God made Adam and Eve in the garden so that he could walk with them and enjoy the cool of the day with them. That goal has never changed.

We consider Enoch blessed because he was caught up to heaven (Gen. 5:24). Only one thing was said about Enoch, that he walked with God. If one of the notably blessed humans was blessed for walking with God, then it must be that God wants to walk with us … with you … with me.

“We love him because he first loved us.”–1 John 4:19