Genesis 7:5-12 And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.
(6) Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the
earth. (7) And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him
went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood. (8) Of clean animals, and
of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps on
the ground, (9) two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as
God had commanded Noah. (10) And after seven days the waters of the flood came
upon the earth. (11) In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second
month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the
great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. (12) And
rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
God’s judgement comes against the wickedness and sinfulness of mankind, but
God’s salvation comes to those whom He has made righteous. How grateful we should
be as believers in Jesus Christ that God rescues us from the flood of His
judgement against our sin. How we should rejoice in the hope that we have of
knowing that we shall not endure the terrors of God’s wrath, but will know the
riches and blessings of God’s love. How this should encourage us to persevere
particularly in times of hardship and opposition, for God rewards those who
remain faithful unto the end. Noah faithfully did all that which God commanded
him to do, even in the midst of many discouragements and opposition, yet his
faithfulness and perseverance is rewarded by God. Furthermore this passage
should encourage and motivate us to evangelism for another flood of God’s
judgement is coming, no one will be spared, it will be a final and eternal
judgement, and one from which there is no escape. While we are safe in the hands of
God, saved by the Lord Jesus Christ, we should not take our ease and merely sit
back while others perish, rather we should call out to them, like Noah, be
heralds of righteousness, in other words preachers of the Gospel, so that yet
more may enter into God’s salvation. Rejoice in your salvation, be faithful in
your walk with Christ and reach out to those who perish with the Gospel of
salvation.
Merciful Father, we are filled with joy today as we are reminded of the
wonderful salvation that we have in the Lord Jesus Christ, how we have been
spared Your wrath and brought into Your eternal blessings. Thank You that we
have such a hope in the midst of a perishing and condemned world. Help us to be
faithful to You, faithful to the end, even in the face of opposition, and give
us the desire to hold out the message of salvation through Jesus Christ to those
who are perishing so that they might turn from death to life.
Amen
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