Among the many wonderful lessons given us in the Scriptures, none is of more vital interest to Christian Scientists than the earthly record of those who are described as having learned how to walk with God. The term "walked with God," used in the Bible in reference to Noah and Enoch, has been defined as "a prophetic life spent in immediate converse with the spiritual world."
On page 323 of Science and Health our Leader says: "Beholding the infinite tasks of truth, we pause,—wait on God. Then we push onward, until boundless thought walks enraptured, and conception unconfined is winged to reach the divine glory." As we gain a true understanding of the enduring satisfaction of walking "enraptured," the belief in the reality of the sinful sense of murmuring, or wandering, must lose its hold. After they had left Egypt the children of Israel spent many years wandering in the wilderness. History records that discouragement, murmuring, and rebellion merely served to darken their concept of the true way, and thus their years of aimless wandering were doubled. As Christian Scientists we may well profit by these lessons of the children of Israel, and persevere in walking "enraptured" toward ideal home, church, and business relations and conditions. Thus we shall find without delay Truth's unobstructed way to the promised land of peace and joy.
The Scriptures tell us that Enoch, seeking divine guidance, walked and talked with God three hundred years, and "he was not; for God took him." His translation followed as a necessary result of his daily life, which he had chosen to spend in constant communion with God. Of Noah it is likewise said in the Scriptures that he was a "just man and perfect in his generations,"—that is, among his coworkers,—and that he, like Enoch, "walked with God."
