(Gen. 5:24 – “And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.”

Harold Rawlings has written about the importance of epitaphs. Someone else has told of another amusing epitaph upon someone’s grave: “I told you I was sick!” Well, we’ll never find a grave marker for Enoch because there isn’t one, other than what is recorded here in holy Scripture. What a testimony! So eloquent, so simple, and so full of meaning. We don’t know the particulars of how he walked with God in those long ago days. But what a remarkable record that he did walk with God in sweet fellowship and devotion. And this in a world that was soon to be destroyed because man had forgotten about God! (Ps. 9:17)

Enoch's epitaph might have been that "He walked with God" (Gen. 5:24). What more expressive way of stating that he loved God supremely and lived His life to please Him? The work and faith of Adoniram Judson comes to mind. He was a missionary – the first missionary sent out by the young United States – to Burma for nearly forty years.  The epitaph on missionary Judson's tombstone in Malden, Massachusetts, is expressive of his life: 

“The Ocean His Sepulchre?"  Yes. He died at sea after a prolonged illness that was probably the result of his labors for the God with whom he walked. What will be our epitaph after we are gone? This will be a witness and testimony of the years we spent on earth. It matters not whether you are a minister, a missionary, or a lay person. It does matter what you do with what you have been entrusted. "To whom much is given, much is required." Brethren, let us walk with God. And may our record be a good one on high.