So Noah Went Out...

The doors are shut, Noah and his family and all of the animals are safely inside, and the floods come – just like God said they would.  Everything God told Noah is now happening – storms and all.  Do you think during that 40 days that Noah ever wondered about God’s directions and how it would all turn out?

If he was human, I’m thinking he did.  But then, maybe not.  Maybe, living a righteous life and hearing God’s voice to build,and obeying that purpose in his life, brought him a peace that is elusive to so many of us.

Maybe responding to God’s voice in obedience settled his soul for the storm ahead.

And maybe God speaks to us before storms occur that will wreck our boats if we don’t listen. And if we just simply obey his voice, we experience peace even though our boat rocks back and forth in the waves…

Read this passage from Genesis 8:

Then God spoke to Noah, saying, “Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may ^[breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.” So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him. Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by their families from the ark. Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. The Lord smelled the soothing aroma; and the Lord said to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done.  “While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, And cold and heat, And summer and winter, And day and night Shall not cease.”

We’ll comment more tomorrow….