Page 9 - WALKING WITH GOD VOL I INTRODUCTION

Adam was thinking back to the good old days and what it was like to be smack dab in the middle of the pres- ence of God.
So Adam stops talking and sits still for a while, with a far-away look in his eyes.
Finally, little Enoch can’t take it anymore, so he pokes him and says, “Come on grandpa, tell me, what happened!”
The truth is, Enoch had heard the story over and over and over, but each time his grandpa told it, it was as if Enoch was hearing it for the first time.
Startled, Adam cleared his throat and continued. “As I said...” “Come on grandpa,” Enoch interjects. Enoch had heard this story so many times before, he had no trouble telling it himself, which he did when he found someone who would listen.
“Well, as I said, it all happened in the evening, close to sunset, in the cool of the day. For that’s when your grand- mother Eve and I met with our best friend, God, the cre- ator of all the universe and the mountains and the streams and the forests and the animals, and all mankind.
“No, there are no words that could ever express how we felt.”
Enoch interrupted him, “Grandpa, is it really true that you named all the animals?” “Yes,” smiled Adam as he shook his head up and down, “but that’s another story.”
Grandpa Adam continued, “It was then that we pre- pared ourselves for our fellowship with God.
“As we anxiously waited there in the garden, your grand- ma would often say, ‘Oh, He will soon be here. He is coming. He’s getting closer. Oh, bless His name! Praise Him.’
“Then Eve would say, ‘He’s coming, He’s on the moun- tain top. He is the sweet Rose of Sharon. Oh now, He’s down in the valley. He is the Lily of the Valley, Adam.’
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