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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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