enoch

“Enoch lived 365 years. Enoch walked with God….”[1]

That was all that was said about Enoch: he “walked with God.” I want to be known for that above all other things. I want others to think of me in that way rather than what I have accomplished or for what I have accumulated. My greatest hope is to be identified as a companion of Jesus and to have been known as someone who ‘walked with God.’

One day a 6th grade boy at the church I am a part of, wrote me a note. He wrote it with a crayon. It read, “Mr. Eric, Thank you for being a part of my life. I can see the Jesus inside of you.”

That note is going to be kept close as long as I live. It is more accredited than the degree from my college and seminary, written on fine parchment with near perfect hand writing and headed by an embossed gold emblem from the institution of “higher learning.”