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But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and livestock with him in the boat. He sent a wind to blow across the earth, and the floodwaters began to recede. Genesis 8:1 NLT
If Noah had been interviewed by Gallup on issues of morality and godliness, he would have found himself completely outnumbered. To his credit, that did not stop Noah from living a blameless life. For the first five hundred years of his life, Noah kept on doing right in a world that was going very wrong.
Even after God called him to make a boat that would be his means of rescue from the coming judgment, Noah endured another hundred years of standing against the tide of growing violence and hatred. But now he was a public spectacle, building a ship that no one but his family and the animals would choose to enter, no matter how diligently Noah warned his fellow citizens. No one listened and no one cared—and Noah and his family alone were left when the Flood swept the inhabited world away.
In the end, Noah received the approval that really mattered. He found favor with God and salvation from otherwise certain destruction.
Like Noh, you are never so outnumbered that it is impossible to live by faith, pleasing God.
Prayer: Lord, transform me. Like Noah, I want to live a blameless life, even if I am the only one who does so.
If Noah had been interviewed by Gallup on issues of morality and godliness, he would have found himself completely outnumbered. To his credit, that did not stop Noah from living a blameless life. For the first five hundred years of his life, Noah kept on doing right in a world that was going very wrong.
Even after God called him to make a boat that would be his means of rescue from the coming judgment, Noah endured another hundred years of standing against the tide of growing violence and hatred. But now he was a public spectacle, building a ship that no one but his family and the animals would choose to enter, no matter how diligently Noah warned his fellow citizens. No one listened and no one cared—and Noah and his family alone were left when the Flood swept the inhabited world away.
In the end, Noah received the approval that really mattered. He found favor with God and salvation from otherwise certain destruction.
Like Noh, you are never so outnumbered that it is impossible to live by faith, pleasing God.
Prayer: Lord, transform me. Like Noah, I want to live a blameless life, even if I am the only one who does so.
