Monday 11 November 2013

man Noah had faith (Genisis 6:9-22)


If God asked you or I to build an ark, what would we do? Oh I have a good Idea what I would do, since I have trouble enough following him in faith and trusting him with much smaller things, I expect I would not have followed through as Noah did.

Genesis 6:9-22) (http://www.biblegateway.com)
New International Version (NIV)
Noah and the Flood
This is the account of Noah and his family.
Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God. 10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.
11 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. 13 So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. 14 So make yourself an ark of cypress[a] wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. 15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.[b] 16 Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit[c] high all around.[d] Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. 17 I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. 18 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. 19 You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. 20 Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. 21 You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.”
22 Noah did everything just as God commanded him.

So what will we do the next time God asks us to follow him in faith, maybe it won't be to build an ark, but perhaps it will be to trust him with an issue at work, reconciling a friendship, the outcome of a health issue, etc. How will we choose, will we muddle along on our own or will we trust him and follow him in faith?


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