A few days ago I wrote about Faith and of some of the examples that the Bible gives of people who have been faithful to God. One of those people was Noah.....so I thought today I would show you a few of the verses from Noah's story.
Genesis 6:5-9, 13-20, 22
The Lord saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. The Lord was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain. So the Lord said "I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth-men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air for I am grieved that I have made them."
But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.
Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God. 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. So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.
This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 450 ft. long, 75 ft. wide and 45 ft. high. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. 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. 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.
You are to bring into the ark 2 of every living creature, male and female, to keep them alive with you.
Noah did everything just as God had commanded him.
God saw that Noah was righteous and would obey God's commands. Thats why he chose him to build the ark.
Look how God told Noah exactly how to build it! And Noah was FAITHFUL and did exactly as God had commanded him to do. And God saved Noah and his family because of that.
Genesis 7:17, 21
For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth.
Every living thing that moved on the earth perished-birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all man kind.
Genesis 8:1-2, 6-7, 15-16
But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him ni the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded. NOw the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed and the rain had stopped falling from the sky.
After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth unti the water had dried up from the earth.
Then God said to NOah, "Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.
God didn't forget about Noah while they were on the ark....he was with them the whole time. And when the water had dried up from the earth God told them to come out.
When we walk with the Lord, follow where he leads and obey his commands....he will take care of us. He will bring us through the "floods" (or hardtimes) in life.
Be faithful! Live for God.
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