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Noah Walked With God
Genesis 6:1-9:17
We are
all familiar with the story of Noah. The Bible tells us that God saw
the wickedness of man and how “every intent of the thoughts of his heart
was only evil continually.” The sad state of God’s creation lead Him to
declare, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also
is flesh.” We know that God destroyed the world with a great flood,
saving only Noah and his family.
One may
wonder why God chose to preserve the family of Noah. What was it about
Noah that caused God to look favorably upon him when He was determined
to “blot out man” because He was sorry he made them? The Bible gives
the answer, “Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.” According to
Genesis 6:9 Noah was a righteous man and blameless in his time. Noah
walked with God!
You
see, even though all the world was given over to evil, Noah remained
faithful. While all around him men were doing whatever wickedness their
depraved hearts could imagine, Noah stayed true to God and sought to
please Him rather than his own pleasure. Is our world that much
different from Noah’s? Do we not see evil all around us? We, like
Noah, can choose to remain faithful to God, to seek and do His will and
not our own. If we do, we, like Noah, will find favor with God.
Like
the world Noah inhabited, this present world is doomed for destruction
(2 Peter 3:7). Only this time the destruction will be complete; there
will be no remnant of man preserved to start over again. Those who are
faithful will be taken up to heaven to dwell in the presence of God
forever (1 Thess. 4:16-17) while the wicked will be “thrown into the
lake of fire” (Rev. 20:15).
Heaven
is real and we rejoice with the knowledge that it is open to all who are
faithful. The sad truth is that Hell is just as real. While heaven is
a place of rest and joy hell is full of torment and anguish. We will
spend forever in one of these two places. Noah, because he was
faithful, will be in heaven. Where will you spend eternity? My pray is
that all of us here at Pond will be together in heaven with the faithful
of all ages.
Yours
in the love of Christ,
Thomas Sneed
Pond Church of Christ
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