3.026 What Would Your Sentence Say?

In Matthew 5, Jesus calls us the salt of the earth and the light of the world, reminding us that our lives are meant to preserve, illuminate, and point others to Him. This season on Savory Salt, we'll walk through the Old Testament, one verse and one thought each day. Perhaps these moments will add greater savor and brighter light to our lives as we seek to truly live as savory salt.

Hello, my friends. It's a new day with new opportunities. Choose ye this day whom you'll serve.

If you were to show up in one verse of Scripture and your life was summed up in one sentence, what would that verse say about you? We are starting this week with some deep thoughts. That's one worth thinking on.

I hope you take an opportunity to dig into that one. We're reading this week Genesis chapter 5 and Moses chapter 6. And that sounds like it's quite a small bit of reading, and they're not lengthy chapters, but there is some great stuff and I'm so looking forward to what we're going to dive into this week as we look at the story of Enoch.

Now as we dive into that, we're going to start our week here inside of Genesis chapter 5. And this is another reason why modern revelation is so amazing in our understanding of the scriptures. Because if you just read Genesis chapter 5, you do get pretty much kind of a family history of sorts, right?

You get this tree of Adam and Eve. But that's about all you get inside of there. And then there's this tiny verse that just makes you go, "Wait!

I'm sorry, what just happened there?" And that is our verse for today. As we take a look at Genesis chapter 5, we're going to look at the story of the Bible, Genesis 5, verse 24. Let's take a look at it here and see what we can get from it.

It says this: "And Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him." Now in general Christian beliefs, really it's verses 22 through 24 as our reference to Enoch. We see in the Book of Genesis we see this single three verses, right? These seemingly tiny sentences about Enoch and yet it perks your ears up.

You go, "Wait a second! He walks with God, and then God took him. What does this even mean?" My friends, I think it's an opportunity for us to realize that we are all creating our sentences in history books, so to speak.

Our experience in someone else's history book is going to be just a verse or a sentence, right? Maybe in general history books we show up and we're just a sentence. Maybe we're not even a mention.

But when we look at writing the details of our own lives and our own stories—the stories with our family members and those that we have intimate relationships with—as we look at those stories, we realize that we have quite a story written. That's what Moses chapter 6 is to Genesis chapter 5. So as we get a look this week in Moses chapter 6, we're going to get most of our readings this week out of Moses 6 rather than Genesis 5.

The reason for that is because while Genesis 5 gives us this little snippet about this amazing man Enoch, who God loved so much that he took him and said, "Hey, come with me." We're going to be able to dive into the details in Moses. If you popped into a piece of modern scripture and it was recorded that Susan or Jerry or Olivia or Hope or whoever the names are, whoever you are, if your sentence popped into a verse of scripture, what would it say about you and your experience with God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ? That is an amazing experience that I hope you can carry through as you look into the scriptures this week and spend some time in personal revelation there.

That's all for today, my friends. I'm excited for this week. You and I have come here for such a time as this.

Step forward in faith and let's be savory salt. We'll be here tomorrow and we hope you are too.