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希伯来书：11:5-6：5以诺因着信，被接去，不至于见死，人也找不着他，因为神已经把他接去了。只是他被接去以先，已经得了神喜悦他的明证。6人非有信，就不能得神的喜悦：因为到神面前来的人，必须信有神，且信他赏赐那寻求他的人。
我至今还记得我爷爷的兄弟奥皮的葬礼悼词。他和我们一起生活在农场里。他一辈子都在和酒精抗争。当然也不全是这样，他终于在去世的前一年成功戒酒。尽管如此，他仍然是一名忠心的农场工人。有时候他会给我们买糖果，或是带我们去钓鱼。尽管他有酗酒的毛病，但他每个星期日都会去教会做礼拜。他就是在这里长大的。牧师在葬礼上的讲道，讲的就是以诺的故事。这让我更多的去看奥皮的内心，而不是他的外在表现。
当我们信靠我们的救主耶稣，而不是信靠我们自己的时候，我们就是在与上帝同行。关于以诺的记载不多，圣经里只记载了他与神同行，以及他警告那些不信的人，并预言上帝的审判（犹大书：14）。但上帝选择让他不经历死亡，就被带到天上。只有他和以利亚有这样的经历。为什么只有这两个人？上帝本可以选择任何其他信徒经历这事，但上帝只选择了以诺和以利亚，因为他们是因信得救，正如我们同样也因信得救。以诺和以利亚的故事为旧约时代的人带来特别的盼望，即人死后还有生命。
也许我们从这段经文中学到的最重要的功课是：“人非有信，就不能得神的喜悦。”义人因信得生。藉着信心而活的简单的生命是上帝喜悦的。所以不要以貌取人，就像不要凭借封面就断定一本书的内容。一个人的生命故事取决于他的内在，这是一本只有上帝才能读懂的书。
祷告：主耶稣，求你与我同行，我也与你同行!请提醒我不是靠自己的成就拯救了自己，而是单单靠在你里面的信心。请让我不论今日还是每一天都靠信心活着。求你使我放胆对我这世代作见证，使人知道你必在荣耀中再来，叫那日子未到以先，他们可以在你那里得着指望。阿们。
Hebrews 11: 5 By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God. 6 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
I remember the funeral sermon for my great uncle, Orpie, who lived with us on the family farm. He struggled with alcohol all of his life. Well, not quite all. He quit drinking the year before he died. He was a faithful worker on the farm, though. Sometimes he bought us candy or took us fishing. In spite of his drinking, he went to church every Sunday where he grew up. The story of Enoch was the pastor’s funeral sermon text. It made me look at what Orpie was on the inside and not on the outside.
We walk with God when we believe in the Savior and not in ourselves. Not much is said about Enoch, except that he walked with God, and that he warned the people of their unbelief and prophesied about God’s judgment (Jude 14). Yet God chose to take him to heaven without experiencing death. Only he and Elijah experienced this. Why just those two? God could have chosen any number of believers, or any believer for that matter, because Enoch and Elijah were saved by faith, just as we are saved. The story of Enoch and Elijah gave people in the Old Testament especially hope that there is life after death.
Perhaps the most important lesson in these verses is this. “And without faith it is impossible to please God.” The righteous live by faith. A simple life lived by faith is pleasing to God. So don’t judge the book by its cover. The story of a person’s life is what it on the inside and is a book that only God can read.
Prayer: Lord Jesus, walk with me and I will walk with you! Remind me that it is not my accomplishments that save me, but only faith in you alone. Let me live this day and every day by faith. Make me bold to testify to my generation that you will come again in glory so that they may find hope in you before that day comes. Amen.