Let God finish the Door

Genesis 6:13-16

Noah never got smart, he never got independent of his need to obey and listen to God.   Often we the followers of Christ will listen and follow him up to the point of setting the door in our ark.  Often at that point we begin to look at the “ark” our family, our job, our bank account, our stuff, even our ministry, and with pride start believing it was our design, our skills, our project; at that point we buy into the independent spirit of self can finish the door on the ark, and the whole “ark” our family, our job, our bank account, our stuff, and our ministry gets destroyed.  Noah was faithful till the job was done.  Noah had a dependent spirit, he did not get full of pride over the “ark,” it was God’s design, and Noah never forgot that he was the tool that God used to save every living thing.

Because of Noah being dependent on God, verse 18, 19, gives this account, “But I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, and your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.  And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark to keep them alive with you.”  We have a covenant God!  When you hear the word “covenant” do you think of Genesis 9:16, “Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.”  Or does your mind go to the last Supper of our Lord, when he said, “For this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.”  (Matthew 26:28).

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice