We can only imagine the ridicule Noah musthave endured as he built the ark and called his wicked generation to repentance. - P76
[NIV] 1 The LORD then said to Noah, "Go into the ark,
you and your whole family, because I have found yourighteous in this generation. - P74
4 Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth forforty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the faceof the earth every living creature I have made."
5 And Noah did all that the LORD commanded him. - P74
Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons‘ wives en-ter the ark. Seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, one pair of every kind ofunclean animal, and seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, enterthe ark. - P75
After seven days, rain falls on the earth for forty days and forty nights. - P75
God does not leave Noah to figure thingsout after giving him this daunting assignment. Rather, He walks withNoah and teaches him what to do. - P76
This is true of our discipleship aswell. When we receive Jesus, God does not just leave us to navigate through life
on our own but gives us His Holy Spirit to be with us and to lead us step by step. - P76
His words revealed to us in Scripture are
precise and clear, and He has appointed
shepherds, teachers, and fellow disci-ples to guide and walk alongside us. - P76
Similarly, Christians may suffer scorn from the unbelieving world.
However, God is true in all that He says. His plans for us and for this world
will come to pass. - P76
We can only imagine the ridicule Noah musthave endured as he built the ark and called his wicked generation to repentance.
- P76
Father, open the eyes of my heart that I may hold on to Your promises by faith. - P76
Help me not to set my hopes on what my eyes can see, but lead me to behold the
glories that are yet to come. In Jesus‘ name, amen.
- P76
16 The animals going in were male and female of everyliving thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then theLORD shut him in.
- P80
23 Every living thing on the face of the earth was wipedout; people and animals and the creatures that movealong the ground and the birds were wiped from theearth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in theark.
24 The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fiftydays. - P81
The God whogave the breath of life now takes it away from every living thing. Be-cause God freely created the world, it is His right to visit judgmentupon sinners as He sees fit. God is by no means acting out of uncon-trolled rage. Rather, He is simply exercising His divine freedom andjustice. - P82
It ought to humble and amaze us to think that the most sig-nificant act of judgment-even more catastrophic than the flood-fellupon Jesus, the Son of God, who exercised divine freedom by sufferingand dying on the cross for our sins. - P82
Jesus is the ark that preserves us andgives us God‘s new breath of life through His death and resurrection. - P82
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