God's Promise to Noah
God gave Noah some very bad news and some very good news. God was going to kill every creature under heaven by sending a great flood. However, He was going to establish His covenant with Moses, so that his family would be saved by entering the ark they were to construct. (Genesis 6:17,18) Noah lived in a very wicked time, but he was totally faithful to God, so he found favor with God. God saved his whole family, because Noah walked with Him. I believe there is a lesson for all of us here.
No one else in the world was righteous, except Noah. Think of how difficult it would be to live a righteous life and go against the rest of the people in the world, besides your family. The great thing is that Noah did that. If He did it, we can do it today. Also, God made His covenant with Noah to deliver him and his family through the flooding of the whole world. God can always deliver us, no matter how serious the situation we find ourselves in. He is the Deliverer. Finally, God showed Noah how to make the ark, so that his family and some of all the animals could be spared. That was an engineering marvel for that time, yet Noah was able to construct it with God's help. Nothing is too hard for us, as long as we allow God to guide us and empower us to do His will.
The promise to make a covenant with Noah reminds us that God is a covenant making and keeping God. Now, we live under the New Covenant set up by the shedding of Jesus' blood. Just like Noah received this promise, God gives each of us His promise that we can enter the New Covenant by trusting in Jesus and His sacrifice for our sins. If we do that, God will always be faithful to deliver us from sin and take us safely through to heaven.
Tomorrow, I intend to read Genesis 7-9.
No one else in the world was righteous, except Noah. Think of how difficult it would be to live a righteous life and go against the rest of the people in the world, besides your family. The great thing is that Noah did that. If He did it, we can do it today. Also, God made His covenant with Noah to deliver him and his family through the flooding of the whole world. God can always deliver us, no matter how serious the situation we find ourselves in. He is the Deliverer. Finally, God showed Noah how to make the ark, so that his family and some of all the animals could be spared. That was an engineering marvel for that time, yet Noah was able to construct it with God's help. Nothing is too hard for us, as long as we allow God to guide us and empower us to do His will.
The promise to make a covenant with Noah reminds us that God is a covenant making and keeping God. Now, we live under the New Covenant set up by the shedding of Jesus' blood. Just like Noah received this promise, God gives each of us His promise that we can enter the New Covenant by trusting in Jesus and His sacrifice for our sins. If we do that, God will always be faithful to deliver us from sin and take us safely through to heaven.
Tomorrow, I intend to read Genesis 7-9.